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Visual Studio installer / extension install can't run (errors)

I have been using Visual Studio 2022 Professional without issues for a while now, but I noticed in the last few weeks or so that I can't install extensions, and can't even open the VS Installer or uninstall! I'm including both of these as they seem to…

Visual Studio
Visual Studio
A family of Microsoft suites of integrated development tools for building applications for Windows, the web and mobile devices.
2,428 questions
asked 2023-02-02T09:53:35.99+00:00
moo2u2 21 Reputation points
commented 2023-02-02T22:13:42.54+00:00
moo2u2 21 Reputation points
0 answers

Registered File Association no longer working in MFC App after porting to 64 bits?

Our application has stopped working when a user double clicks on a data file that has been registered with the shell. When the user double clicks the data file the application is still opened by windows and the '/dde' command line argument is received,…

Visual Studio
Visual Studio
A family of Microsoft suites of integrated development tools for building applications for Windows, the web and mobile devices.
2,428 questions
C++
C++
A high-level, general-purpose programming language, created as an extension of the C programming language, that has object-oriented, generic, and functional features in addition to facilities for low-level memory manipulation.
2,627 questions
asked 2023-02-02T17:41:07.6666667+00:00
John Wilk 0 Reputation points
commented 2023-02-02T21:52:40.04+00:00
John Wilk 0 Reputation points
0 answers

Visual Studio 2022 Designer Errors with .NET Core Windows Forms apps

I have noticed that as I am designing .NET Core Windows applications in Visual Studio 2022, it frequently yet randomly shows the error in the attached image. This usually comes up when I make changes to the form code (even if it doesn't affect any…

Visual Studio
Visual Studio
A family of Microsoft suites of integrated development tools for building applications for Windows, the web and mobile devices.
2,428 questions
asked 2023-02-02T21:12:59.0933333+00:00
Paul McConnell 0 Reputation points
0 answers

How fix The program '[54321] Python @ tcp://localhost:57777/' has exited with code 4294967295 (0xffffffff).

recently i start using visual studio for python with selenium automation. when i am running selenium automation from command line, everything working successfully. when i run tests from Visual studio 2022 , i am seeing below error The program '[54321]…

Visual Studio
Visual Studio
A family of Microsoft suites of integrated development tools for building applications for Windows, the web and mobile devices.
2,428 questions
asked 2023-02-02T20:01:38.9533333+00:00
Shankar Yalagonda 0 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Performance issues - Sql Server 2022 Standard Edition

Hi, I've been using SQL Server 2014 express to store data and interact with my C# applications on Windows 10 for different years. I wanted to do some test with Sql Server 2022 before upgrading to that version so I've installed the Evaluation Edition (all…

Visual Studio
Visual Studio
A family of Microsoft suites of integrated development tools for building applications for Windows, the web and mobile devices.
2,428 questions
SQL Server
SQL Server
A family of Microsoft relational database management and analysis systems for e-commerce, line-of-business, and data warehousing solutions.
8,543 questions
C#
C#
An object-oriented and type-safe programming language that has its roots in the C family of languages and includes support for component-oriented programming.
6,983 questions
asked 2023-01-27T14:01:43.71+00:00
Leonardo Azzari 0 Reputation points
accepted 2023-02-02T20:00:24.23+00:00
Leonardo Azzari 0 Reputation points
1 answer

Edmx codegenerator for legacy project

I have been assigned a task required to use VS 2012 edmx generator. Therefore, I have to get a license for VS 2012 although we bought and use VS 2022.   I am looking for a way that I do not have to install VS 2012. But the code won’t generate like VS…

Visual Studio
Visual Studio
A family of Microsoft suites of integrated development tools for building applications for Windows, the web and mobile devices.
2,428 questions
Entity Framework 6.0
Entity Framework 6.0
A Microsoft open-source object-database mapper for .NET.
218 questions
asked 2023-02-01T21:25:28.9633333+00:00
EunMin Lee 0 Reputation points
commented 2023-02-02T18:12:55.3533333+00:00
EunMin Lee 0 Reputation points
1 answer

VS 2022 upgrade queries

I am upgrading a major VB project developed in VS 2010 to newly installed VS 2022, and would appreciate advice on a couple of things - I use VB Powerpacks but although my existing project compiles with them still showing I can't get Powerpacks listed…

Visual Studio
Visual Studio
A family of Microsoft suites of integrated development tools for building applications for Windows, the web and mobile devices.
2,428 questions
asked 2022-05-18T11:58:41.45+00:00
Nick Buckenham 41 Reputation points
edited a comment 2023-02-02T16:25:18.57+00:00
Fredy Wenger 201 Reputation points
0 answers

MSVC compiler hangs on user defined operator overload

I have header which sets some identifier and also holds some sub class also and for interoperability we have defined operator overloads for main class and all its sub classes. And sample code like below, it takes lot of time to compile this. And some…

Microsoft Build
Microsoft Build
A Microsoft platform for building applications with Visual Studio and .NET on Windows.
370 questions
C++
C++
A high-level, general-purpose programming language, created as an extension of the C programming language, that has object-oriented, generic, and functional features in addition to facilities for low-level memory manipulation.
2,627 questions
asked 2023-02-02T12:37:30.34+00:00
Mohammad Mohsin Siddiqui 5 Reputation points
commented 2023-02-02T15:04:48.03+00:00
David Lowndes 4,231 Reputation points Microsoft MVP
1 answer

Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation error in Visual studio 2022 - 17.4.4

Hi , I'm facing below error in Visual studio 2022 Professional edition - 17.4.4 version, Feature 'XXX' is currently unavailable due to an internal error in Visual studio 2022 - 17.4.4 I tried clean up all the visual studio version , and installed visual…

Visual Studio
Visual Studio
A family of Microsoft suites of integrated development tools for building applications for Windows, the web and mobile devices.
2,428 questions
asked 2023-02-02T09:27:30.56+00:00
Jaganathan Pushparaj 0 Reputation points
answered 2023-02-02T14:03:25.6733333+00:00
Anna Xiu-MSFT 11,111 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Download Visual Studio 2017 community

why Visual Studio 2017 or 2015 community edition not show in download page where i can download Visual Studio 2017 or 2015 community edition

Visual Studio
Visual Studio
A family of Microsoft suites of integrated development tools for building applications for Windows, the web and mobile devices.
2,428 questions
asked 2023-02-01T06:11:52.8933333+00:00
Kalpesh patel 20 Reputation points
commented 2023-02-02T13:48:34.39+00:00
Kalpesh patel 20 Reputation points
2 answers

Continiously Breakpoints in ntdll.dll in Visual C++ Visual Studio 2022 Windows 11

Hello, i have a problem in MSVC++ Visual Studio 2022 running on Windows 11 My software continiously breakpoints in ntdll.dll, then the software continues to run. Sometimes breaks in one location, sometimes in other. The thing is that i cannot make my…

Visual Studio Debugging
Visual Studio Debugging
Visual Studio: A family of Microsoft suites of integrated development tools for building applications for Windows, the web and mobile devices.Debugging: The act or process of detecting, locating, and correcting logical or syntactical errors in a program or malfunctions in hardware. In hardware contexts, the term troubleshoot is the term more frequently used, especially if the problem is major.
696 questions
asked 2023-01-28T23:22:51.86+00:00
Anonymous
commented 2023-02-02T12:41:59.64+00:00
RLWA32 28,656 Reputation points
3 answers

How can I install Visual Studio 2019 on a PC that is not connected to the internet?

Please help me understand how to install Visual Studio 2019 on a PC that is not connected to the internet? When running the VS2019 installer downloaded from Microsoft on the standalone PC, the application needs a connection to the internet in order to…

Visual Studio
Visual Studio
A family of Microsoft suites of integrated development tools for building applications for Windows, the web and mobile devices.
2,428 questions
asked 2023-02-01T16:50:16.9866667+00:00
Frank DiFonzo 0 Reputation points
answered 2023-02-02T10:17:20.48+00:00
Tianyu Sun-MSFT 13,071 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer

Visual Studio 2019 Splash Screen Appearing on Secondary Monitor

I'm currently using Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition 2019 ver. 16.11.21 in conjunction with the Unity Game Engine. I started using with my laptop hooked into a monitor with the monitor as my main screen. One time, I had to bring my laptop so I…

Visual Studio
Visual Studio
A family of Microsoft suites of integrated development tools for building applications for Windows, the web and mobile devices.
2,428 questions
asked 2023-02-01T03:14:22.9166667+00:00
iron59 0 Reputation points
commented 2023-02-02T10:05:40.6166667+00:00
Anna Xiu-MSFT 11,111 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer

TFS 2018 end of life and extended support?

We're aware TFS is end-of-life (EOL) soon. Can you please confirm the EOL date for TFS 2018 Update 2? Is that possible for extended support? If yes, what is the cost and timeline? Thx

Visual Studio
Visual Studio
A family of Microsoft suites of integrated development tools for building applications for Windows, the web and mobile devices.
2,428 questions
asked 2023-02-01T17:00:35.56+00:00
chaunguyen1997 nguyen 0 Reputation points
commented 2023-02-02T09:50:01.04+00:00
Tianyu Sun-MSFT 13,071 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
0 answers

Visual Studio 2022 another problem with class View

Ok so I open VS. Then I open an XAML file. I go to an ItemsSource and copy the property. Then I go to Class View. Well the search is not available. This is reproducable. And why is the class view not available all the time. The open source…

Visual Studio
Visual Studio
A family of Microsoft suites of integrated development tools for building applications for Windows, the web and mobile devices.
2,428 questions
asked 2022-12-31T18:18:57.333+00:00
Lloyd Sheen 776 Reputation points
commented 2023-02-02T09:25:02.5433333+00:00
Tianyu Sun-MSFT 13,071 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
3 answers

Class usage error- C++ Winforms

Hi friends I adapted a class that was in C# to C++ Winforms, but as I don't have much knowledge of classes, it's giving a problem using the class. Below is the class code. In the main program, I put this command line - ListViewColumnSorter…

Visual Studio
Visual Studio
A family of Microsoft suites of integrated development tools for building applications for Windows, the web and mobile devices.
2,428 questions
C++
C++
A high-level, general-purpose programming language, created as an extension of the C programming language, that has object-oriented, generic, and functional features in addition to facilities for low-level memory manipulation.
2,627 questions
asked 2023-01-31T21:58:45.4166667+00:00
José Carlos Souza 201 Reputation points
edited a comment 2023-02-02T08:27:03.6833333+00:00
Minxin Yu 3,096 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
0 answers

Visual Studio Ent MSDN LSA OLV

Hi, Please help me to get a PDF document or a link that explains the features & benefits of Visual Studio Ent with MSDN under OV program?

Visual Studio
Visual Studio
A family of Microsoft suites of integrated development tools for building applications for Windows, the web and mobile devices.
2,428 questions
asked 2023-02-01T11:39:51.63+00:00
NH 141 Reputation points
edited the question 2023-02-02T08:20:07.67+00:00
Tianyu Sun-MSFT 13,071 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer

Visual Studio 2019: Failure: Could not find a part of the path

When I use vs2019 16.8.4 to build an application,vs2019 will prompt: Could not write to "obj\Debug".Could not find a part of the path"d:\code\abc\obj\Debug" But when I press F5 or Ctrl+F5,vs2019 will build success and run…

Visual Studio
Visual Studio
A family of Microsoft suites of integrated development tools for building applications for Windows, the web and mobile devices.
2,428 questions
Microsoft Build
Microsoft Build
A Microsoft platform for building applications with Visual Studio and .NET on Windows.
370 questions
asked 2023-02-02T01:48:16.85+00:00
翔 高 0 Reputation points
answered 2023-02-02T08:17:06.3866667+00:00
Anna Xiu-MSFT 11,111 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
0 answers

Padding of TextBox does not work when using style through Resources

Hello, I am working on a project and trying to set padding in XAML through UserControl.Resources. I am able to configure Margin and Height, but Padding value does not make any change to TextBox controls. I have several ComboBoxes, which Padding works…

Visual Studio
Visual Studio
A family of Microsoft suites of integrated development tools for building applications for Windows, the web and mobile devices.
2,428 questions
C#
C#
An object-oriented and type-safe programming language that has its roots in the C family of languages and includes support for component-oriented programming.
6,983 questions
Windows Presentation Foundation
Windows Presentation Foundation
A part of the .NET Framework that provides a unified programming model for building line-of-business desktop applications on Windows.
2,182 questions
asked 2023-02-02T02:52:34.71+00:00
VladPE 0 Reputation points
commented 2023-02-02T07:05:59.13+00:00
Hui Liu-MSFT 14,796 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer

Visual Studio on Windows 11 quits before intsall in completed. No error given...

When I go to install the latest version of Visual Studio (as of 2/1/2023) it quits on me. It gives no errors. It says it's preparing the installer and then nothing. Any help?

Visual Studio
Visual Studio
A family of Microsoft suites of integrated development tools for building applications for Windows, the web and mobile devices.
2,428 questions
asked 2023-02-02T01:54:26.9566667+00:00
Brian Skuzinski 0 Reputation points
answered 2023-02-02T06:32:25.7666667+00:00
Anna Xiu-MSFT 11,111 Reputation points Microsoft Employee