Cannot uninstall Visual Studio 2015 RC Community

Question

I’ve been using the visual studio 2015 RC community for some time now, and I found that I can get the full corporate version for free from my university. But after I removed the community version from the control panel, I still see it in my start menu, and it works as if nothing had happened. I saw when searching the Internet to use cmd with /uninstall /force , but I don’t know which application to use it in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE to use it.

Please help me remove this IDE so that I can reinstall it.

Answer 1

I had the same problem to solve this problem. I downloaded the latest (from the preview) visual studio edition community and rerun the setup. Choose repair / modify, this may solve the problem.

I will recommend you use the 2013 version, since 2015 still feels incomplete and takes a long time to complete a small operation. Intellisense takes a long time to initialize, and in many cases it feels unstable.

Answer 2

I know this question is old, but just in case ...

To remove Visual Studio 2015 Community, follow these steps:

• Search for vs_community.exe:

  cmd (administrator rights) → cd C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\ → dir /s vs_community.exe

This will give you the exact location of vs_community.exe

2. Delete

   cmd (administrator rights) → C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{*CODE*} → vs_community.exe /uninstall /force

Additional Information:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/heaths/2015/07/17/removing-visual-studio-components-left-behind-after-an-uninstall/

NOTE: search vs_community.exe instead of vs_enterprise.exe / vs_ultimate.exe

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

From the documentation:

Uninstall Visual Studio https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt720585.aspx

Alternatively, you can use the Total Uninstaller tool to remove everything that Visual Studio or Visual Studio updates can have installed. That is, any version of Visual Studio 2013 or later. to learn more, see the Visual Studio Uninstaller tool on GitHub.

VisualStudioUninstaller

https://github.com/Microsoft/VisualStudioUninstaller