Visual Studio 2015 does not start

Question

We have installed Visual Studio 2015 Professional on Windows 7. It was working fine. But after we installed updates from the menu Tools-->\'Extensions and Updates\' today the Vi

Answer 1

After trying the other solutions in this thread, what finally worked for me was:

From an elevated Command Prompt, navigate to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE".

Execute:

devenv.exe /Log C:\temp.log

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The log should contain a matching set of Begin and End entries for every extension:

Begin package load ...
...
End package load ...

If the last extension is missing the End package load entry, you need to uninstall that extension.

Execute:

devenv.exe /SafeMode

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Go to "Tools -> Extensions and Updates" and uninstall the offending extension.

Exit VS. Start VS as normal. In case it still doesn't work, repeat the procedure.