OMFG This ithing is worse then a virus!!! I cannot uninstall it and it will not let visual studio 2015 load and I have a crappity smacking project due on Monday!!!!!!

I tried the damn / key and it does not remove visual micr4o it just dumps a long list of errors about not finding the path it's looking for!!!!

This is total bullshit!  I need to get this thing out of visual studio why does it have to be so hard to remove an extension????
 

I am just a pissed at microsoft for havin you have to get into a program that can potentially be corrupted by an extension in order to remove an extension!!!  Who's crappity smacking brilliant idea was that?

I sorted it out.  I loaded vs2015 in safe mode and removed visual micro.  I realized that c++ is not installed by default anymore so I installed it (as instructed).  I am now going to reinstall visual micro and see if it is stable.

Well no joy.  Installed c++ and verified it was installed then reinstalled visual micro 1510.22.0 and vs 2015 is hung on startup again!  

I will reload in /safemode and once again remove visual micro and wait for this to be resolved.

Must have been a typo. I do not install ms vs in my c: disk.  I have an ssd and cannot afford the space.  I installed vs in the I: disk.  It's still in the default path with in the root folder /programs (*86)/...

just not on my boot disk.

I did 1-3.  The /resetsettings switch through a bunch of errors only the /safemode switch worked and allowed me to remove vm from within vs which is cleaner then yanking the .dll.

I did install c++ within vs 2015.  But after re-installing vm vs hangs (goes to not responding) and will eventually try to restart but still will not load.

As soon as I started with devenv /safemode I can then uninstall visual micro from the tools/extensions and addons.

Then when I restart vs 2015 it loads just fine.  So VM is definitely the culprit here.  

When VS 2015 first came out I had a similar problem and once again I told told many are running vm and vs 2015.  But it still took two or three updates before my system would run.  So there was and I am sure now is a problem with the installer on some machines (like mine).

So whatever was added in the 1510.22.0 update appears to have broken something again.  

I am sorry for getting so upset but I did not realize it was vm and an update that caused the issue.  I have been working on a project for over a week and just last night I worked from 6pm until 3am and when I went to bed had almost finished the job.

Well when I got up at 9am and could not launch VS it did not occur that a VM update had cause the issue.  So I scanned all my disks, reinstalled vs, and ultimately recovered from a backup which ended up wiping all the work I had done because I did not remember that I had installed the working folder onto my desktop.  

Then on top of that I spent at least 2 hours trying to remove vm because the command line option on the vm web site did not work.  Then I had to research the /safemode switch to remove vm.  So all in all this has been a pretty dissasterous update for me!

Just a thought. There might be two possible things to check when you have time. 

1) If a visual micro dialog sitting behind the ide and/or showing in the task bar when the problem happens.
2) Does pressing the Alt key on the keyboard bring the ide back to life?

Thanks

Something else I did last night that could have been an issue, although VS was starting I went through and deleted about half a dozen other extensions that I have not been using.

Perhaps I was having a conflict between VM and one of them?

When I get a chance I will pull the .26 version and roll back to .22 and see if it loads.  If so I would think it was an incompatibility issue with one of the other extensions I deleted last night.