Visual Studio Uninstallation sometimes can be unreliable and often leave out a lot of unwanted artifacts. Visual Studio Uninstaller is designed to thoroughly and reliably remove these unwanted artifacts.
First run seemed to have worked but left things hanging (sql server, redistributables etc.). I (probably wrongly and should have run the tool again) removed all these but this resulted in VS 2015 reappering in add/remove programs and again impossible to uninstall. Any subsequent run of this tool results in crash of the application, if I run it from command line, I get:
Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or ass
embly 'Setup.VS.ConfigurationManager, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKe
yToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specifi
ed.
at Microsoft.VS.Uninstaller.Program.Main(String[] args)
using the depends utility, i get:
I removed .NET 4 completely and cleanly installed and I also installed VS redist 2008, 2010, 2015.
I admit, there is a more serious problem with the computer and that is actually why I could not iuninstall VS 2015 in the first place
First run seemed to have worked but left things hanging (sql server, redistributables etc.). I (probably wrongly and should have run the tool again) removed all these but this resulted in VS 2015 reappering in add/remove programs and again impossible to uninstall. Any subsequent run of this tool results in crash of the application, if I run it from command line, I get: Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or ass embly 'Setup.VS.ConfigurationManager, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKe yToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specifi ed. at Microsoft.VS.Uninstaller.Program.Main(String[] args)
using the depends utility, i get:
I removed .NET 4 completely and cleanly installed and I also installed VS redist 2008, 2010, 2015. I admit, there is a more serious problem with the computer and that is actually why I could not iuninstall VS 2015 in the first place