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Visual Studio removal (of old versions)

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    Tom VulnDetect Team Member
    last edited by 13 Sept 2022, 07:58

    Removal of (older) Visual Studio installations is possible using the Custom Software feature.

    Select the right "bootstrapper" for your use case / license (new ones can remove older installations):

    2022:
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/create-an-offline-installation-of-visual-studio?view=vs-2022#step-1---download-the-visual-studio-bootstrapper

    2019:
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/create-an-offline-installation-of-visual-studio?view=vs-2019#step-1---download-the-visual-studio-bootstrapper

    2017:
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualstudio/visual-studio-2017/install/create-an-offline-installation-of-visual-studio?view=vs-2017#step-1---download-the-visual-studio-bootstrapper

    All you need to remove a given installation is to run it with these parameters: uninstall --quiet --wait --installPath="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community". This will automatically remove the installation in the mentioned folder.

    It is important to pay attention to the path, even an extra trailing \ will cause the operation to fail.

    You also need to consider if the old installation is 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit.

    VS2017 uninstallation.PNG

    If you supply the wrong path, no harm should happen, the installer just fails to remove Visual Studio.

    If you don't supply the "installPath" then it will remove all Visual Studio installations.

    /Tom
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