Visual Studio won't install
How to install visual studio 2019 community version
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Yesterday I tried running .Net Reactor to protect a program, and when it opened the program's window was there, but completely transparent and only the drop shadow could be seen. I closed it and went back to Visual Studio to find the top menus no longer responded to mouse clicks (the rest of the app was fine). I figured it was a bug and closed Visual Studio then restarted by opening the solution I was working on. When my solution opened I got a solid white window except for the properties box at lower right. I closed it and tried starting VS proper, which resulted in a black window and no responsiveness to clicks (there was no "working" cursor). I tried loading visual studio installer and got the same blank window I got from .Net Reactor. I had to use the command line uninstaller to remove Visual Studio and deleted the installer afterwards along with the relevant registry entries (or so I think...). Now I run VS Community Installer and... it appears in the task bar but no window at all.
I'm running Win 10 version is 20h22. Updates are current. GPU is Nvidia GTX 1650, driver version 572.16.
EDIT: I tried to run SharpDevelop and it's having similar issues... menus not showing, panes and controls not drawing. I've got a hunch something happened with UWP. Gonna remove and reinstall my Nvidia drivers to make sure it's not them.
Hi @Beast,
Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!
You can try to download the VS2019 Community using the link:
https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vs_community.exe
Sincerely,
Anna
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VS 2029 is already out-of-support
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/visual-studio-2019
You would need a subscription to get older version
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/
Better use VS 2022
In this case you need to go to Control Panel => Programs and Features and choose Visual Studio and update it.
This has happened to me for the last 3 upgrades in Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 (now again on upgrade to 15.9.21). The fastest fix (and I'm not sure why) is simple and doesn't bomb your settings or take for ever.
In the Visual Studio Installer, click on Modify.
Click "Modify" on the bottom right corner. Yes it says "Total space required 0 KB". Yes you didn't really change anything.
It will then act like it is downloading something. (not sure what)
It will then act like it is installing something. (again, not sure what)
Open Visual Studio 2017 and it works.
You want to install Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8 ?
After downloading visualstudiosetup.exe go to command line and enter:
visualstudiosetup.exe --channelUri https://aka.ms/vs/17/release.LTSC.17.8/channel
Make selections and let install
Ok, I see it, we are only able to rollback to earlier version if using Enterprise or Professional licence (here), in my case, I'm using Community, so it may difficult to do it.