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Tuesday, January 5, 2016 1:19 PM
Hi all,
I've just completed the update mentioned in the subject and now my Devenv.exe file is missing, along with all shortcuts relating to it in Windows 10 Professional. Any ideas?
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Wednesday, January 6, 2016 9:09 AM âś…Answered
Hi Barry,
The issue was that the .exe was missing at that location, along with many other .exe and config files relating to it. To resolve the issue I simply did a repair on the VS 2015 installation, which applied Update 1 in the process as well (this took quite a while to complete, for any others in the same situation, so be patient).
The only error message that appeared was at the end, informing me that Blend 2015 had failed to re-install due to a missing .exe file.
I would like to know what caused it myself, I simply restarted my machine as instructed by the installer upon completion and found the IDE directory in disarray. Regardless, the fix is simple enough in this instance.
Wednesday, January 6, 2016 6:46 AM
Hello macdanger,
When you install the Update 1, did you get any error? Please navigate to your Visual Studio installation location, for example, I installed under D:\ drive and I can find the exe under the following location:
D:\Visual Studio 2015\Common7\IDE
Can you find the file there? If you cannot find it maybe you have a corrupt Visual Studio installation.
Best regards,
Barry
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Sunday, March 13, 2016 1:19 PM
This problem STILL EXISTS as of 3/13/2016.
Did a download of visual studio community edition 2015, it installed with NO devenv.exe at all.
Please stop solving problems people DON'T have and start working on all the bugs your products/OS DOES have.
Monday, January 9, 2017 4:56 PM
I have the same problem.
I just downloaded and installed visual studio express 2015.
What I noticed was that I was missing the template for building VB Console applications.
I found this article:
It describes what you should do to supposedly get the templates.
It said to delete the ItemTemplateCache and ProjectTemplateCache folders, but I didn't find them. There are ItemTemplate and ProjectTemplate folders, which I left in place. It then says to open up the visual studio command with administrative privileges. From there your suppose to run devenv /InstallVSTemplates. That's how I ran into the problem that devenv was either not installed or not on my path. Whereis didn't find it and File Explorer search did not find it, so it probably wasn't installed.
I kind of agree with your point that MS should pay more attention to fixing bugs than adding new features. Something like this, however should have been caught in their testing phase since building console apps are core tools to most developers. This is 2017, why does this problem exist in a 2015 dated product. That's what's frustrating!