Topic: VS Community Edition installation failure and ... then there were none

[RICVBA]

Hope I can get some actual help from you guys
I had successfully installed VS Express for Desktop and then I got caught in the VS Community temptation, after following pluralisght free subscription I read about
So I downloaded the installation exe from https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/post-download-vs but installation process failed and there they started countless attempt for trying and fix it following what I found here and there in the web.
I also wrote twice to Microsoft via the help form that automatically appears after every installation failure, but getting no answer. So I subscribed to msdn and launched a help cry there too. but not a sign of intelligent life after a week.
My actual problem is that right after the very first failed attempt at installing VS Community 2015, I had problems in VS Express too: very slow at loading a solution as well as responding to commands in xamls solutions design window. Windows forms solution had problems as well, where I had to "ignore and continue" to make them run.
So I'm now completely stuck with C#/Autocad programming.
I run a Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 system, and highly hope I don't have to reinstall it.
May be someone of you has already incurred in what above and successfully got through.
 in the meanwhile...going forward with VBA!

[Kerry]

I can't help, sorry.
I went from VS2013 Pro to VS2015 Community without issue.

Can still use 2013 ok.

I'm using Win10

[Atook]

Certainly sounds like something got monkeyed around with in the OS. Maybe try a restore point from Windows Restore?

[Jeff_M]

I installed the 2015 Community Edition on my Win7 machine without a problem. I then attempted to install the same on my Win10 machine and had multiple errors. I was trying to get a project out for a customer so I gave up and just went back to using the 2013 Community edition on the Win10 machine. I never did figure out why the 2015 version failed to install, but had planned to do so this weekend. I will say that the failed install does not seem to have affected how the 2013 version functions.

I'm with Atook, go back to a good Restore point, if possible.

[RICVBA]

thank you all guys
I haven't the possibility to run restore system (at the time I installed W7 I had quite small a drive!)
so I'm on my way to install W10, hoping those fellows at Microsoft have learned a lot form W8 and, mainly, WVista...

[RICVBA]

W10 didn't improve my situation to any extent
still VS2015 Community installation fails with a fatal error at the time it begins installing VS team services, which I cannot unpin from custom installation features choice.

I guess I can only try and find some solution in the web

@Jeff_M: did you come through it ?

[Atook]

RICVBA: Did you do a fresh install of Win10 and still couldn't get VS2015 installed?

Maybe you could re-download the installer, that'd be my next guess.

I just did a VS2015 Community install on Win8 yesterday from here with no problems...

[RICVBA]

don't really know what kind of install the system specialist made of W10, but OS runs flawlessly (for what I can get of it)

still, no way of getting neither VS Community nor VS Express installed
Everytime it stops while trying to install Team Explorer for Microsoft Visual Studio 2015.
After countless attempts of getting around this, I'm shuttin' down the PC

I can't make sense out of it

[RICVBA]

I had to format Windows drive from scratch.
And reinstall all applications ... fine moments. And here it is my Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition shining on my desktop.

So I'm back to the point where I must face ObjectARX SDK and various Wizards (both ObjectARX And Autocad) installation too.
Since I'll have to code for Autocad 2014 and 2010 would someone kindly remind me what to download from where and which order to follow?
What actually freightens me is some reminding that I have to install another VS version (2008?) too, along with its proper SDK&wizards in order to code for 2010.
Thank you

[Keith Brown]

I can tell you with confidence that you will not have to install another VS if you are working solely with .NET.  You will have to manage your .NET framework versions however depending on the version of AutoCAD that you are using for each VS project.

[BlackBox]

You'll need the ObjectARX SDK for each version you intend to develop for, however you should not need to install more than one (the newest) .NET Wizard; as already pointed out, the framework dictates the assembly output at build.

Cheers

[RICVBA]

@Keith: I'll Work with .NET and COM. Does that make any difference as long as SDK and Wizards recommendations for deploying to Autocad 2010 and 2014 are concerned?

@BB: is there any good sequence to follow?

Thank you all

[Jeff H]

Here is a short recording of creating a simple project for 2016.
I do not have sdk files for 2014 downloaded on this computer but could of downloaded 2014 sdk or used these which are 2014 version
https://github.com/Hpadgroup/AcExtensionLibrary/tree/master/libs/Acad/v19.1

Other than these files being a different version its the exact same process to create a simple 2014 project.
You can change which version of .NET framework you target in project properties but might as well set at beginning of project.
At beginning of video I would of chosen .NET 4.0 for 2014 and 2010 is 3.0 or 3.5 but can easily search and find out.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/c023c86f-8264-4ddb-b5a1-e24586fd7c4c

That's it still needs code for example Command attributes which are metadata(data about your code) that tells autocad what methods to call when a command passed to command line.