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Monday, May 15, 2017 10:27 PM
Recently upgraded to Visual Studio 2017. However when I open projects or more importantly web sites I can no longer get to design view. Seems like a fairly important part of 'visual' studio. Any ideas. Works fine in 2015. Is there a step in the installation I missed. Uninstalled and tried again but comes up the same. Pretty frustrating to say the least. Thanks for any help.
All replies (12)
Monday, May 15, 2017 11:44 PM
Hi,
I can click [View Designer] in Solution Explorer and see a Windows Form.
Which are you using, Windows Forms app, WPF app, Web app?
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Ashidacchi
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 3:09 AM
Hi,
How have you done a setup of Visual Studio 2017?
using the default Workload? or selecting each component one by one?
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Ashidacchi
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 4:42 AM
Thanks for the reply. I used the default setup. Has worked for every other version up until this one. I uninstalled it again yesterday and plan to do a fresh install. Since I mostly work on web development maybe there is a installation selection or feature I missed.
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 4:47 AM
Well that is a good question. I mostly do web development but not exclusively. Many other projects. 2015 didn't seem to care what I opened or started. I installed 2017 using the default setup which has worked for every other version since about 2002 when .NET was first introduced. This time I don't remember it even giving me an opportunity to select any settings. But some of the panels might be a bit too subtle for me and the selections might be there. I just didn't see them. Uninstalled yesterday and re-installing again being more aware of any settings I might have missed the first time.
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 5:11 AM
Hi,
Sorry, I can hardly understand your situation correctly.
I guess you can't see "Solution Explorer". If this is correct, you can see it by [Ctrl] + [R] or menu [View] > [Solution Explorer].
When it won't work, insert a screen shot in your post or share it via cloud storage such as OneDrive, Dropbox, etc.
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Ashidacchi
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 5:24 PM
Okay, I think I figured out why I'm missing the design view. 2017 is simply failing to install all but the basic level of components. None of the components selected actually install. Complete failure of every one. No idea why but uninstalling and trying again selecting one at a time till I get one to take. Maybe then I can install more. No idea why the failure. Log is only so helpful. But now I know why the design view is not working or anything else for that matter. Thanks for the help. Any clues to install failure welcome. Installing on 1 year old computer with Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017 2:46 AM
Hi Kvizier,
Thank you for your update about this issue.
If the cause is pending on the installation, in the situation, you can try to remove the existing VS 2017 that install failed before as below:
1. Go to Control Panel—Programs and Features, if there has ‘Microsoft Visual Studio 2017’, right click it and choose ‘Uninstall’
2. Try to delete the following installed folders: (you can back up those folders before any modification, in case we need to roll back)
3. Go to the folder: %ProgramData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio and delete the ‘Packages’ folder and ‘Setup’ folder if there has.
4. Go to the Visual Studio installation folder (normally under %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio) and delete the folder ‘2017’
After that, make sure windows update is up-to-date, clean up the %temp% folder and temporarily disable any antivirus software, reboot the computer and re-run the VS 2017 RTM installer as administrator again.
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017 9:08 PM
Thank you for the help. Unfortunately no change. Still fails to install. However I'm trying to do this on my work computer. Maybe there is something blocking the install. I have computers at home with Windows 7, 8.1, and 10 that I can try to install it on. So I'll try that.
Friday, May 19, 2017 6:55 AM
Hi Kvizier,
Is there any update about this issue?
If it is fixed, would you mind sharing us the solution and result here, it would benefit those community members who encountered similar question as yours.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
Best Regards,
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Friday, May 19, 2017 10:38 PM
The problem has not yet been solved. I am going to try to install it on my home computers this weekend and see if I get it to work.
Sunday, May 21, 2017 9:43 PM
Well Visual Studio 2017 installed correctly on my home computer, with only the web development and Python selected, so I'm going to have to conclude that something on my work environment is causing a problem. The error I think it might be tied to is a file in use by another program which seems to be causing the install fail. At least that's the last error in the log but there are a lot of messages before that. But it may be the virus protection which is difficult to shut off completely. Will continue to try various solutions.
Friday, May 26, 2017 7:03 AM
Hi Kvizier,
>>so I'm going to have to conclude that something on my work environment is causing a problem.
I agree with you about this reason, you may have a try with running devenv /Safemode to eliminate the possibility that third party Add-ins or packages are causing problems.
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