Installation of Visual Studio 2015

Question

Hi

I am using Windows 7 PC. I have been using VS2010, VS2012 for long. I wanted to explore the mobile development of Visual studio. Which was present in VS2015. I downloaded the Visual Studio Community 2015 from the visual studio site. It starts off the installation fine but gets stuck in applying Apace Ant 1.9.3.

I have uninstalled once and started off fresh installation but the same result persists. If I close (cancel) the installation then Visual Studio 2015 does not run (says some components not installed properly). I did the repair part, it repairs all the parts i.e does 218 of 230 components. But again the repair gets Stuck in repairing the Apache Ant 1.9.3.

How do I proceed? Your help will enable me to guide the installation successfully. Waiting for an responsive reply from your end.

Thanking you

Answer 1

Hi Subha Ranjan saha,

Welcome to MSDN forum.

Visual Studio Community 2015 is supported on the Windows 7 SP1, please make sure you already installed SP1 and all pending patches under Windows update also installed.

You could have a try with the following steps:

1. Go to Task Manager, see if there the task of VS and kill all, restart the computer.
2. Run command in admin mode and go to \ProgramData\Package Cache and run the command: Del /F /S *.msiDelete /F /S *.cab.(firstly, please backup the package)
3. Install visual studio again.

How did you install VS community 2015? If you used the ISO file, I recommend you verify the integrity of the ISO file. If you used the web installer, please have a try with the ISO file and see if the same issue happens or not?

To verify the integrity of the ISO file, please use the FCIV.exe tool to check the SHA1 value of the ISO, the expected value comes from here, any discrepancy means the ISO is corrupted.

Meanwhile, please make sure you already followed the installation tips as below:

1. Disable any anti-virus
2. Clean up the %temp% folder
3. Run the installer as administrator

If this issue still persists, I need your help to the VS installation log. Please use http://aka.ms/vscollect to gather the installation logs. After using it, you will find vslogs.zip under %temp% folder. Please upload the file to https://onedrive.live.com/ and share the link here.

Best regards,

Joyce  

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Answer 2

Thanks Joyce,

I am using the web installer. The ISO download is too high to download i.e >7 GB file. Well I have cleaned the %temp% folder, deactivated the AVG and am Trying the installation again. Hope it finishes up fine. If any error still occurs I will get back again.

Answer 3

Hi Subha Ranjan saha,

Thank you for your update.

Have you solved your problem?

To analysis the detail error information about this failed installation, I need your help to collect the complete installation log. Please use http://aka.ms/vscollect to gather the installation logs. After using it, you will find vslogs.zip under %temp% folder. Please upload the file to https://onedrive.live.com/ and share the link here.

You could also have a try with the method about repairing the cache:

1.Close Visual Studio.

2.Open an elevated command prompt. To do this, click Start, type cmd in the Start search box, right-click cmd.exe in the results list, and then click Run as administrator.

3.At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press Enter.

   cd "C:\ProgramData\Package Cache"

4.To clear the .msi and .cab files from the cache, type the following commands at the command prompt, and press Enter after each command: Delete /F /S *.msiDelete /F /S *.cab

5. install visual studio again.

Best regards,

Joyce

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Answer 4

Dear Joyce

Thanks for the help.

I could install Visual Studio 2015 successfully after following the steps given by you after downloading the .iso file.

Now the problem is all the ToolBox is greyed out. As per help I went to Tools -> Options -> Xamarin-> The second option Anroid SDK not found. How to do this ON and enable the toolbox.

Your help will allow me in start developing my mobile app.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 5

Hi Subha Ranjan saha,

Thank you for your update.

Glad to know that you have resolved the issue about installing visual studio 2015, and thanks for sharing your solution here.

Since the thread is to talk about installing visual studio 2015, if we talk about your another issue which is not related to the first issue, someone who has the first issue may be confused.

I recommend you could open a new thread here to talk about your another issue, we will always help you to solve it.

If you think my reply is helpful, would you please mark it as the answer or mark your replay as answer?

So it would be helpful for other members who meet the same issue as yours. Thank you for understanding.

Best regards,

Joyce

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Answer 6

Thanks I will do the same

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