Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Uninstall Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise

I had a bad install of Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise (iso from MSDN Subscription) and it would not run or uninstall, even with /uninstall /force.
 
Some of the error messages:
 
"Setup blocked"
 
"Failed to download the update xml file..."
 
This tool did the trick, it tells you where all of the .msi files are so you can uninstall Visual Studio bit-by-bit. All of the uninstalls worked. I probably missed a few, but when then I did the web install and selected uninstall and it uninstalled cleanly. I then was able to do a full web install that went perfectly.
 
Thanks to Aaron Stebner.

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