Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 CTP Known Issues and Fixed Bugs

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09/19/2016

Summary

Microsoft released Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 CTP on February 10, 2016. This article lists the known issues and fixed bugs for Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 CTP.

To see the full list of Visual Studio 2015 products and to select a product for download, check out Visual Studio Downloads.

Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 CTP details

To discover what's new in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 CTP, see the Visual Studio release notes.

Download the latest Visual Studio 2015 update package now.

Fixed bugs

This section describes some bugs that are fixed in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 CTP.

Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2015

Updates for Office Developer Tools now appear in the Notification Hub.
You can now create a document-level VSTO project for Office 2016 without experiencing errors when you use the following VSTO templates:
- Excel 2013 and 2016 VSTO template
- Excel 2013 and 2016 VSTO workbook
- Word 2013 and 2016 VSTO template
- Word 2013 and 2016 VSTO document

Visual C++

In Visual Studio 2015, you may experience a UI delay (typically up to three seconds) when you load a Visual C++ project.

Known issues

Application Insights Tools

If you use Visual Studio Update 1, and you have upgraded to the 4.2 version of "Application Insights Tools for Visual Studio 2015," installing Microsoft Visual Studio Update 2 CTP and starting it causes errors that are related to not being able to load the "Microsoft.VisualStudio.ApplicationInsights.Interfaces" assembly. Additionally, you may see this error when you create Universal App projects.

Workaround:

This issue is fixed and applies to any new installations of Visual Studio Update 2 CTP. However, if you have a computer in this state, follow these steps to fix the issue:

Open Control Panel, and then click Programs.
Click Uninstall a program.
Select Application Insights Tools for Visual Studio 2015 in the list.
Click Change.

Visual Studio extensions cache not updated

After you install Visual Studio Update 2 CTP, any installer or VSIX that runs /setup or /updateConfiguration (for example, ASP.NET 5 RC1 U1), will not update the extensions cache correctly. This can lead to numerous issues. However, in the context of the Web Tooling you may see the following:

Server Explorer is missing the App Service node.
The Web Project Publish command is nonfunctional.
Frequent package load failures occur, and notifications continue until they are disabled.

Workaround:

Close Visual Studio.
Open a developer Command Prompt window as an administrator for Visual Studio 2015. (Search on "developer command" to locate the executable.)
Run the following command:
```
devenv /setup  
```

LightSwitch project creation

You may experience some issues when you create new LightSwitch projects.

Workaround:

For the optimal experience when you use LightSwitch project, revert to Visual Studio 2015 Update 1. We will resolve this issue in the next official update.

More information

How to download Microsoft support files

Updates for other products in the Visual Studio family can be found on the Microsoft download site for Visual Studio website.

Restart requirement

You may have to restart your computer after you install this package.

Software requirement

On Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2, you have to install update 2919355 (also available through Windows Update) before you install Visual Studio 2015 RTM. This is because the .NET Framework 4.6 installer can't be installed without update 2919355.

Supported architectures

32-bit (x86)
64-bit (x64) (WOW)

Third-party applications

Visual Studio 2015 installation lets you install third-party applications. For information about which third-party applications are required when you install Cross Platform Mobile Development tools from Visual Studio 2015 , see Knowledge Base article 3060693.
Visual Studio 2015 removal does not uninstall third-party applications. For information about how to uninstall third-party applications that were installed together with Visual Studio 2015, see Knowledge Base article 3060695.

Applies to

Visual Studio Professional 2015
Visual Studio Enterprise 2015
Visual Studio Community 2015
Visual Studio Express 2015 for Web
Visual Studio Express 2015 for Desktop
Visual Studio Express 2015 for Windows 10

Warning

The third-party products that this article discusses are manufactured by companies that are independent of Microsoft. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, about the performance or reliability of these products.

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