Unable to uninstall Visual Studio Professional 2013
Hello There,
For past few days i've been working on Visual Studio professional 2013. Now the thing with this is, it installs fine. But the moment you try to uninstall it along with other updates provided with source, it somehow, doesnt uninstall. i've tried all the combination of switches the exe supports but so far no success. Any help in this regard will be appreciable
Answers (2)
Found the answer to the problem. When uninstalling via command line in a silent mode, the vs_professional.exe needs to be run twice, the very first instance of exe doesnt uninstall the application, the second however does. So i wrote a small piece of code in batch file to run the exe twice. Problem Solved!!!
Have you tried with the parameters: /Uninstall /Force
ref: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e2h7fzkw.aspx
Comments:
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that was the first thing i tried but no go :( .....any ways lets see,vjaneczko has suggested a solution. let me see if that works. - talonsprem87 10 years ago
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This would be a good time to examine the MSI to see whether any components are marked as permanent, and also examine a verbose log of an uninstall to see exactly what is going on - EdT 10 years ago
REM MS Office Developer Tools for VS 2013
"%~dp0MS Office Developer Tools for VS 2013 - March 2014 Update\cba_bundle.exe" /uninstall /quiet
REM Uninstall Visual FSharp
"%~dp0Visual Fsharp update\FSharp_Bundle.exe" /uninstall /quiet
REM Uninstall Visual Studio Professional 2013
"%~dp0Visual Studio Professional 2013\vs_professional.exe" /Uninstall /Quiet /NoRestart
Even if for some reason , i shuffle the order of uninstall, still the uninstall fails with only partial uninstall - talonsprem87 10 years ago