

You can also download Visual Studio 2019 RC (Release Candidate) from the official website.

You can then easily install and run it alongside any other edition of Visual Studio – they won’t interfere with each other and this won’t require any considerable upgrades of your OS. If you haven’t downloaded it yet, you can do it here for free: Visual Studio 2019 preview. Like all previous editions, the latest Visual Studio comes with lots of improvements and new features that are focused on faster execution, more productivity for developers and team collaboration. Microsoft has recently released the preview version of Visual Studio 2019. Update: for up-to-date information, please see. When the workload selection dialog is shown, close the window and run the steps above again. If you don’t not find InstallCleanup.exe in %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\resources\app\layout – or any directory there above – please download the latest bootstrapper from and run it to install.

This will make re-installing the instance faster since any workloads and components you had installed would remain cached and would not be re-downloaded. This will clean up only instance data such as the installation directory and state. Run: %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\resources\app\layout\InstallCleanup.exe -i.We have mitigated a couple of possible causes and continue to explore both mitigations and long-term remedies, but in the meantime, you will need to clean up, or obliterate, the instance and re-install. Subsequent operations in the Visual Studio Installer fail, and if you reopen the Visual Studio Installer you may not see any instances installed – only what products are available. [installerId: SetupEngine, error: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.Īt .InstanceRepository.GetInstance()Īt .CacheRepository.d_32.MoveNext()Īt .GetInstalledProductSummariesImpl()Īt .GetInstalledProductSummaries() If you open the latest %TEMP%\dd_client*.log file you may see an exception stack trace like, T03:20:00 : Error : Failed to get installed product summaries. Please try again.Ī product matching the following parameters cannot be found: A small number of users are seeing errors after installing or modifying Visual Studio 2017 like the following,
