VS 2015 and Windows 10 1511
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I'm starting to get seriously pissed off because it seems I have to clean install Windows 10 now for the third time this day. The reason: Everything works flawless, except for installing Visual Studio 2015. The setup seems to mess up the OS, it requires a restart, and after I reboot .NET 4.6 is gone (feature disabled, what?) and Add/Remove Windows features is broken. Unfortunately, .NET 4.6 is part of the OS so you cannot use the standalone redist to reinstall it, and enabling the feature back on doesn't work because it's hidden/not visible anymore. The real bad thing is: I cannot execute any .NET code, and the Event Viewer is not working anymore. DISM/SFC doesn't help, either. So much for the first major Windows 10 update, well done. How do I get Visual Studio 2015 to work on it?
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I'm starting to get seriously pissed off because it seems I have to clean install Windows 10 now for the third time this day. The reason: Everything works flawless, except for installing Visual Studio 2015. The setup seems to mess up the OS, it requires a restart, and after I reboot .NET 4.6 is gone (feature disabled, what?) and Add/Remove Windows features is broken. Unfortunately, .NET 4.6 is part of the OS so you cannot use the standalone redist to reinstall it, and enabling the feature back on doesn't work because it's hidden/not visible anymore. The real bad thing is: I cannot execute any .NET code, and the Event Viewer is not working anymore. DISM/SFC doesn't help, either. So much for the first major Windows 10 update, well done. How do I get Visual Studio 2015 to work on it?
Really I see no reason to upgrade to 10 at all. What's to gain? It's full of bugs, spyware, absolutely stupid design ideas, the list goes on. It's just a dumbed down version of 8.1 which personally I find pretty good (well once I've installed the start menu only from Classic Shell). Would 8.1 not work for you?
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I'm starting to get seriously pissed off because it seems I have to clean install Windows 10 now for the third time this day. The reason: Everything works flawless, except for installing Visual Studio 2015. The setup seems to mess up the OS, it requires a restart, and after I reboot .NET 4.6 is gone (feature disabled, what?) and Add/Remove Windows features is broken. Unfortunately, .NET 4.6 is part of the OS so you cannot use the standalone redist to reinstall it, and enabling the feature back on doesn't work because it's hidden/not visible anymore. The real bad thing is: I cannot execute any .NET code, and the Event Viewer is not working anymore. DISM/SFC doesn't help, either. So much for the first major Windows 10 update, well done. How do I get Visual Studio 2015 to work on it?
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Really I see no reason to upgrade to 10 at all. What's to gain? It's full of bugs, spyware, absolutely stupid design ideas, the list goes on. It's just a dumbed down version of 8.1 which personally I find pretty good (well once I've installed the start menu only from Classic Shell). Would 8.1 not work for you?
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It's full of bugs, spyware, absolutely stupid design ideas, the list goes on.
Many people have had zero problems with it, myself included. I like it.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I'm starting to get seriously pissed off because it seems I have to clean install Windows 10 now for the third time this day. The reason: Everything works flawless, except for installing Visual Studio 2015. The setup seems to mess up the OS, it requires a restart, and after I reboot .NET 4.6 is gone (feature disabled, what?) and Add/Remove Windows features is broken. Unfortunately, .NET 4.6 is part of the OS so you cannot use the standalone redist to reinstall it, and enabling the feature back on doesn't work because it's hidden/not visible anymore. The real bad thing is: I cannot execute any .NET code, and the Event Viewer is not working anymore. DISM/SFC doesn't help, either. So much for the first major Windows 10 update, well done. How do I get Visual Studio 2015 to work on it?
I just installed a brand new Windows 10 system this morning, and managed to install Visual Studio 2015 without any problem. I tried to convert some of my solutions, compile them and test, here again without any problem. Did you check the checksums of both your installation medias?
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I just installed a brand new Windows 10 system this morning, and managed to install Visual Studio 2015 without any problem. I tried to convert some of my solutions, compile them and test, here again without any problem. Did you check the checksums of both your installation medias?
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phil.o wrote:
Did you check the checksums of both your installation medias?
I mounted the exact same ISO file I used before, and I just checked the SHA1 - it's OK. Setup went well after all, it's just when I restart as required, it configures Windows and after reboot the system is broken (.NET-wise). PS: I use a custom install.wim to install Windows, I checked that as well, DISM reports no errors so it should be OK. How did you install VS? ISO, or web installer?
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Really I see no reason to upgrade to 10 at all. What's to gain? It's full of bugs, spyware, absolutely stupid design ideas, the list goes on. It's just a dumbed down version of 8.1 which personally I find pretty good (well once I've installed the start menu only from Classic Shell). Would 8.1 not work for you?
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Would 8.1 not work for you?
Well, it worked on the initial Windows 10 release (10240), so I expected it would just work on the November release, and I rather go back to Windows 7 than 8.1; but I already put some effort in Windows 10 to make it usable (created a custom installation image with all the crap I never use removed, a ton of registry tweaks, etc. Telemetry is blocked at the router level.)
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LloydA111 wrote:
It's full of bugs, spyware, absolutely stupid design ideas, the list goes on.
Many people have had zero problems with it, myself included. I like it.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I agree. I had zero problems with Win 10. However, I use Visual Studio 2012 and not 2015.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need, when their violent passions are spent? - The Lost Horizon
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phil.o wrote:
Did you check the checksums of both your installation medias?
I mounted the exact same ISO file I used before, and I just checked the SHA1 - it's OK. Setup went well after all, it's just when I restart as required, it configures Windows and after reboot the system is broken (.NET-wise). PS: I use a custom install.wim to install Windows, I checked that as well, DISM reports no errors so it should be OK. How did you install VS? ISO, or web installer?
I installed from a fresh ISO file downloaded from MSDN. Next thing to do would be to fetch msi log files from system temp directory, and see if there's a specific error code in there. That can represent a consistent amount of work, though :(
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I installed from a fresh ISO file downloaded from MSDN. Next thing to do would be to fetch msi log files from system temp directory, and see if there's a specific error code in there. That can represent a consistent amount of work, though :(
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Seems I tracked down the error, thanks for the tip with the MSI logs. During setup, at some point the VS installer tries to enable ASP.NET in Windows (which is why it asks for a reboot at the end), but the respective DISM command fails and in the course of that all integrated .NET packages are cued for removal in the component store (pending packages). I don't know why this happens, I think it's the component store that is corrupted, because after the reboot the Add/Remove Windows features control panel is also broken, so although the WIM file is reported as healthy, some file in it may be not, and since this is a customized image, I guess the WIM must be broken. I'm trying a reinstall with a vanilla install.wim and check if that works. If yes, it's been the cause of a corrupted Windows installation image all the time. Edit: It works now, confirmed the above was the issue.
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Seems I tracked down the error, thanks for the tip with the MSI logs. During setup, at some point the VS installer tries to enable ASP.NET in Windows (which is why it asks for a reboot at the end), but the respective DISM command fails and in the course of that all integrated .NET packages are cued for removal in the component store (pending packages). I don't know why this happens, I think it's the component store that is corrupted, because after the reboot the Add/Remove Windows features control panel is also broken, so although the WIM file is reported as healthy, some file in it may be not, and since this is a customized image, I guess the WIM must be broken. I'm trying a reinstall with a vanilla install.wim and check if that works. If yes, it's been the cause of a corrupted Windows installation image all the time. Edit: It works now, confirmed the above was the issue.