How to report a Visual Studio problem without opening Visual Studio

Question

The official way of How to report a problem in Visual Studio 2017 or newer requires using VS.

Is there a way to report a VS problem to the official Channel without using VS?  Sometimes VS cannot be opened, and the VS opening failure is the problem to be reported.

For example, I am having the following problem in opening VS 2019 after installing the recent update a moment ago:

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Hong

Answer 1

This particular problem has already been reported (several times) like Suddenly: Setup not complete when Opening visual studio. It can be fixed by adding or removing a component in Visual Studio installer.

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Answer 2

I saw that, but it is not for VS 2019.

I did a repair, and it worked for this particular problem.

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Hong

Answer 3

Visual Studio installer also has a Send Feedback button.

So you can use this to report any problems related to Visual Studio setup.

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Answer 4

Hi Hong,

 Welcome to the MSDN forum.

##Is there a way to report a VS problem to the official Channel without using VS?

>>Sure, since you can open the installer without any problem, you can report the issue by it like this.

According to your issue, is the version of your operating system latest? If not, please try to update it t to see if the problem still exists.

If your issue still persists, you can report is on that way l mentioned above.

Best Regards,

Perry

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Answer 5

Thank you for the tip, Perry.

It has been working fine after the repair.  

Yes, my Windows 10 is the latest - 1903.

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Hong