The setup for this installation of visual studio is not complete, really?

Have been using Vs 2017 for several months on dev machine. This fine morniong says setup incomplete. Am I missing something?

In this case you need to go to the Control Panel => Programs and Features and choose Visual Studio and update it.

VS 2017 (15.6.6) was fine for me on Friday 6/1/18 on Windows 10, but same issue as OP today after a restart.

As suggested by the dialog and Retired Ninja, I ran the Visual Studio Installer (to 15.7.3 after updating VS Installer) and that fixed it.

Note that the 15.7.3 update was a 7.73 GB download. Your download size may vary.

This has happened to me for the last 3 upgrades in Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 (now again on upgrade to 15.9.21). The fastest fix (and I'm not sure why) is simple and doesn't bomb your settings or take for ever.

1. In the Visual Studio Installer, click on Modify.

2. Click "Modify" on the bottom right corner. Yes it says "Total space required 0 KB". Yes you didn't really change anything.

3. It will then act like it is downloading something. (not sure what)

4. It will then act like it is installing something. (again, not sure what)

5. Open Visual Studio 2017 and it works.

Hope this helps.

If you have an offline installation like me and can't simply re-run the Visual Studio Installer you can edit devenv.isolation.ini and change the last line to read SetupFinished=true. It will detect your trickery and complain, but at least it will launch again.

Edit: I ended up getting the Visual Studio Installer to fix the issue after choosing the "Download then Install" option. Maybe I was too impatient when I initially stopped the update? My above answer is useful when you need to get work done that isn't affected by the broken features, but you will likely encounter problems later on.

just had the same problem (without any reason with) vs 2019 prof, after googling and reading on that topic, just went to vsix, looked for some individual component to install/uninstall, randomly picked cloud explorer, uninstalled it and some dependent components and VS 2019 prof started normally

decided to leave this here. may be it helps somebody

Solved: I did following steps, run the visual studio and it works for me. In my case visual studio was working fine , I just restarted the PC, this popup was keep coming when I try to open visual studio.(in my case I was using VS 2019)

• > Go to this path "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\Common7\IDE"
• > Open devenv.isolation.ini, set SetupFinished=true and save.
• > Now open visual studio.

Cheers!

In my case did following steps:

1. Clear temp files (you can %temp% in run command and Shift+Delete files)

2. Restart your computer

3. Open visual studio it will work properly.

Update: Faced problem again after couple of days, This time I go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer.

• Click on retry.
• Select one more feature which I had already installed on my Visual Studio
• Click on modified and after installation it worked again.

I got the same error today morning. This is what I did: I ran the visual studio installer then I clicked on Modify.

The installer was showing 0KB Required. I continued and then it downloaded and installed. (Not sure what). After that installation, it was able to launch. I hope it works for you as well.

This happened to me after I canceled a plugin update.

I solved by going to this site that has the latest update of Visual Studio.

> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes

I downloaded and upgraded it.

After that, Visual Studio worked.

If your VS is already upgraded, there´s an option to "repair" on the installer.

For this problem, goto uninstall screen in control panel right-click visual studio and select option change, Installer page will open now, In that window without changing anything click modify. it will solve the problem. I'm using VS Professional 2017

I was using Vs 2019 professional 16.6 and happened to me this issue one morning. I modified the installation by adding Azure Development tools even though I was not using it. This fixed the issue.

I just updated to 15.9.24 and I got this yet again, as I have my resolution above, and Visual Studio 2019 seems to be a lot better with avoid this issue. The installer for 2019 you do have to change something and do the modification, 2017 you don't have to change anything.

I reported this issue through Developer Community:

Setup not complete since 15.9.21

I don't know why but sometimes its buggy it's up to date but after launch visual studio this error prompted !

you have to click modify in vs installer and just modify it. its not going to download anything. after a moment launch vs and enjoy :)