More Info from Microsoft RE: Visual Studio 2017 Upgrade Woes

Microsoft Responds


I posted a few weeks ago about my problems that I encountered when upgrading Visual Studio 2017 from version 15.1 to 15.2 (those different ways that you refer to Microsoft applications sure are confusing. I wish they'd just refer to Visual Studio 2017 as Visual Studio 15 and when they have major updates to, say, 15.2, it would not be as cumbersome to discuss).

I had posted my issue to the Visual Studio Developer Community website which seems to be the new Microsoft website for everything Visual Studio (I wonder how long that will last?). I had some response from Microsoft representative Raja, and he pointed me in the direction of how to fix my upgrade woes. But eventually I un-installed every developer tool from Microsoft that I could, ran a bunch of CCleaner registry cleanups and reboots and eventually got Visual Studio 2017 up and running again.

I couldn't see how to close my post at the Visual Studio Developer Community (Microsoft reps have to do that) but I did post about how I got my system installed.

Yesterday (June 9, 2017) I got some more follow up from another Microsoft representative, Huy Nguyen. He had quite a bit to say about my problem after he'd reviewed the various log files I uploaded. I was really heartened to have a bit more closure as well as hearing that my issues were not in my imagination! They're still researching and/or working on the resolution and I'm pretty pleased that my case might actually help create a better or at least more robust installation or recovery process!


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