I used to be able to run ildasm in the Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio 2017. With Visual Studio 2019, ildasm is no longer available:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community>ildasm
'ildasm' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Was it replaced with something else or is my VS 2019 installation incomplete?
ildasm.exe is installed with the Windows SDK tools, located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v10.0A\bin\NETFX 4.6.1 Tools\ildasm.exe or somewhere similar depending on the version.
You can install the SDK from this website or by selecting it in the optional components during the installation of VS2019.
Try to use it directly from Developer Command Prompt 2019/2017
This is my Visual Studio UI and installer:
Then, I try to open the installer from Visual Studio. But it shows an error message:
I think that there is no specific path of the vs in its config files. However, I failed to find it. Please share your advice and a solution for this. Thanks.
Let's try this way
- Open CMD with admin privilage and go to this path
cd /d c:\program files (x86)\microsoft visual studio\installer
Depend on which version of visual studio you have installed (Enterprise, Community or Professional) type :
for Enterprise
vs_installershell.exe repair --installPath="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise"
for Community
vs_installershell.exe repair --installPath="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community"
for Professional
vs_installershell.exe repair --installPath="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional"
here is the source it has worked for some users
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/313423/missing-option-value-installpath.html
I was looking to enable TFS tracing in my Visual Studio 2017. All the links I have found is for older version of Visial Studio where you go to the \common7\IDE directory to open up the devenv.exe.config file. For some reason, I do not have this file in my 2017 version.
Does Visual Studio 2017 still utilize the devenev.exe.config? If so, does it reside in a different directory from previous versions?
The devenev.exe is also located under \common7\IDE directory. However, VS2017 installed path is not the same as previous version. The devenv.exe is located at:
For VS2017
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
For VS2015
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
If you want to find the install location of devenv in a script, since there is no %VS150COMNTOOLS% for Visual Studio 2017, you could use vswhere.exe or powershell to find your Visual Studio instances. Detail steps please refer this question: reliable way to find the location devenv.exe of Visual Studio 2017
I ended up going to the VS 2017 environment in a command window in administrator mode. I then ran 'devenv.exe /log c:\vs_logs\log.txt'. That allowed me to create logs of what VS was doing
I installed the Visual Studio Build Tools 2017 using the link (at bottom under Other Tools and Frameworks) installing both workloads: Visual C++ build tools and Web development build tools. I kept the default folder.
Based on quite a few articles, such as Microsoft Web Application Targets is Missing, I expected to see vs_buildtools.exe in the folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\MSBuild\15.0\Bin folder, but no. I see MSBuild.exe, as you can see from this screenshot.
Here is a screenshot of the installer.
Really, there are quite a few articles saying the exact same thing: 1, 2, to name only 2.
How do I get vs_buildtools.exe?
Apparently the only way to solve my Microsoft induced Web Application Targets missing problem, as it is no longer in 15.0 is to use this executable and run the vs_buildtools.exe --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.WebBuildTools as the answer specifies. I am also annoyed now that something that should be there is not. Did Microsoft change something in a newer revision of the Build Tools?
How do I get vs_buildtools.exe?
You have already got the vs_buildtools.exe.
I installed the Visual Studio Build Tools 2017 using the link (at bottom under Other Tools and Frameworks) installing both workloads
You will notice that the installed file name is vs_buildtools__339506979.1501125082.exe, which include the version info in the name. You can rename it to vs_buildtools.exe, that is what you want.
Update for vs_buildtools.exe:
After use the command:
vs_buildtools.exe --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.WebBuildTools
The WebBuildTools will be installed at:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v15.0\WebApplications
Besides, be aware that the comment under the answer:
If you already have downloaded the "Build Tools for Visual Studio
2017" installer
(visualstudio.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/…), then you can
launch that installer, hit Modify and tick the "Web development build
tasks" workload module checkbox. Then click the Modify button and let
the installer finish.
After a Visual Studio 2017 (RC) installation from scratch, I can't find a standard list of templates. I'm specifically interested in the Console Application (C#) template and the Windows Form (C#) template. I'm pretty sure I'm missing one of the Individual Components. I'm not sure which one is supposed to be installed and I don't want to install all of them.
Please see my list with components installed.
You need to install it by launching the installer.
Click the "Workload" tab* in the upper-left, then check top right ".NET-Desktop Development" and hit install. Note it may modify your installation size (bottom-right), and you can install other Workloads, but you must install ".NET-Desktop Development" at least.
*as seen in comments below, users were not able to achieve the equivalent using the "Individual Components" tab.
If you have installed .NET desktop development and still you can't see the templates, then VS is probably getting the templates from your custom templates folder and not installed.
To fix that, copy the installed templates folder to custom.
This is your "installed" folder
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
14.0\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates
This is your "custom" folder
C:\Users[your username]\Documents\Visual
Studio\2017\Templates\ProjectTemplates
Typically this happens when you are at the office and you are running VS as an administrator and visual studio is confused how to merge both of them and if you notice they don't have the same folder structure and folder names.. One is CSHARP and the other C#....
I didn't have the same problem when I installed VS 2017 community edition at home though. This happened when I installed visual studio 2017 "enterprise" edition.
I found the path and wrote it in the options
My personal experience was that I had installed the Team Foundation Server client for 2017 first (was using it as a Proof of Concept for our QA team, while I was still using VS2015), then followed it up with Installing Visual Studio 2017 later to begin development.
What I ended up with on my Start Menu was a Visual Studio 2017 and a Visual Studio 2017 (2). The Visual Studio 2017 (2) had all the templates I was missing. Following the steps found in the First answer to this question (which were clear and easy to follow) did not fix my issue. I had thought that launching the client would upgrade to the Development Client, but it did not. I renamed it to Visual Studio Professional, and now have everything I need. Not sure if this happens to anyone else, but it was what happened to me, so I hope this helps someone.
NOTE: this topic is about installation issues with MS project templates.
I came here via a search in Google, I was looking for a missing Template option in Visual Studio 2017 File menu: in VS-2015, it was Export to Template and I used it to add my own standard Project Items.
Meanwhile, I found an answer.. my issue was not related to default templates and it does not need install things. The option Export to Template has been moved to the VS-2017 Project menu !
I had to reinstall .NET desktop development (throught Workload tab), even button was showing: Modify
After that Visual C# selection appeared :)
(And now i can use Console APP Template)
In my case, I had all of the required features, but I had installed the Team Explorer version (accidentally used the wrong installer) before installing Professional.
When running the Team Explorer version, only the Blank Solution option was available.
The Team Explorer EXE was located in:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\TeamExplorer\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"
Once I launched the correct EXE, Visual Studio started working as expected.
The Professional EXE was located in:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"
My C++ templates were there all along, it was my C# ones that were missing.
Similar to CSharpie, after trying many modify/re-installs, oddly the following finally worked for me :
- run the installer, but un-select 'Desktop development with C++'.
- allow installer to complete
- run the installer again, and select 'Desktop development with C++'.
- allow installer to complete
In my case, I had all of the required features, but I had installed the Team Explorer version (accidentally used the wrong installer) before installing Professional.
When running the Team Explorer version, only the Blank Solution option was available.
The Team Explorer EXE was located in: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\TeamExplorer\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"
Once I launched the correct EXE, Visual Studio started working as expected.
The Professional EXE was located in: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"
This solved my issue, and the reason was I had enterprise edition previously installed and then uninstalled and installed the professional edition. Team Explorer was not modified later when I moved to professional from enterprise edition.