Visual Studio 2019 not opening after latest update

Aniruddha Mukherjee 11 Reputation points
2020-10-16T13:54:05.39+00:00

I updated my VS professional to 16.7.6, but post that I am not able to open VS. The modal window opens up and disappears. It doesn't result in any errors in the ActivityLogs.xml (tried devenv /logs), neither I see any error in event viewer.
I have tried reinstalling with an older version (16.6.0), still facing same issue. I have tried emptying the recent ones from packages folder (C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages) and tried reinstalling, still the same issue.
VS code still opens, so not sure if its any framework related issue. Please assist.

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  1. Tianyu Sun-MSFT 30,566 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2020-10-20T07:54:34.05+00:00

    Hi @Aniruddha Mukherjee ,

    Thank you for your feedback.

    Please try following steps to completely uninstall VS.

    Follow this document: Remove Visual Studio and use the InstallCleanup.exe tool:

    Close the Visual Studio Installer > Type cmd in the Type here to search box > Right-click Command Prompt, and choose Run as administrator > enter the command line like ”C:\Program File (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\resources\app\layout\InstallCleanup.exe” -i

    After that, please try to reinstall VS 2019 from here: Downloads.

    If the InstallCleanup.exe tool doesn’t exist, please try to delete Visual Studio IDE installation folder manually and remove the VS IDE from Control Panel and then reinstall VS again.

    Sincerely,
    Tianyu

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