Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022
Version 17.12.4
VisualStudio.17.Release/17.12.4+35707.178
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.8.09037
Installed Version: Community
ASP.NET and Web Tools 17.12.178.10385
ASP.NET and Web Tools
AvaloniaPackage Extension 1.0
AvaloniaPackage Visual Studio Extension Detailed Info
Azure App Service Tools v3.0.0 17.12.178.10385
Azure App Service Tools v3.0.0
C# Tools 4.12.0-3.24631.1+da7c6c4257b2f661024b9a506773372a09023eee
C# components used in the IDE. Depending on your project type and settings, a different version of the compiler may be used.
Extensibility Message Bus 1.4.42 (main@840f8b3)
Provides common messaging-based MEF services for loosely coupled Visual Studio extension components communication and integration.
Microsoft JVM Debugger 1.0
Provides support for connecting the Visual Studio debugger to JDWP compatible Java Virtual Machines
Mono Debugging for Visual Studio 17.12.5 (918dbb1)
Support for debugging Mono processes with Visual Studio.
NuGet Package Manager 6.12.3
NuGet Package Manager in Visual Studio. For more information about NuGet, visit https://docs.nuget.org/
Razor (ASP.NET Core) 17.12.3.2457601+b5256abf658352440e61aa1372bbc0798e9ceb7d
Provides languages services for ASP.NET Core Razor.
TypeScript Tools 17.0.30918.2001
TypeScript Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio
Visual Basic Tools 4.12.0-3.24631.1+da7c6c4257b2f661024b9a506773372a09023eee
Visual Basic components used in the IDE. Depending on your project type and settings, a different version of the compiler may be used.
Visual F# Tools 17.12.0-beta.24501.1+19610c0b654766eec49d044cb97ca6eaa2a63d16
Microsoft Visual F# Tools
Visual Studio IntelliCode 2.2
AI-assisted development for Visual Studio.
VisualStudio.DeviceLog 1.0
Information about my package
VisualStudio.Mac 1.0
Mac Extension for Visual Studio
VSPackage Extension 1.0
VSPackage Visual Studio Extension Detailed Info
Xamarin 17.12.0.153 (d17-12@1d0906d)
Visual Studio extension to enable development for Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android.
Xamarin Designer 17.12.3.17 (remotes/origin/main@0912a005b9)
Visual Studio extension to enable Xamarin Designer tools in Visual Studio.
Xamarin.Android SDK 13.2.2.0 (d17-5/45b0e14)
Xamarin.Android Reference Assemblies and MSBuild support.
Mono: d9a6e87
Java.Interop: xamarin/java.interop/d17-5@149d70fe
SQLite: xamarin/sqlite/3.40.1@68c69d8
Xamarin.Android Tools: xamarin/xamarin-android-tools/d17-5@ca1552d
Upgrading Visual Studio to a more recent version is usually a smooth process, but now and then, it goes awry. Hopefully, if you find yourself in the following situation, this information will prove helpful.
When you use the Help => Check For Updates menu option from inside Visual Studio, it launches the Visual Studio Installer, which is supposed to kill off all running devenv.exe processes before proceeding to upgrade. Unfortunately, it seems like sometimes it doesn't. For this reason, you should avoid upgrading from within Visual Studio; instead, use Task Manager to ensure no devenv.exe processes are running, then run the Visual Studio Installer directly from the Windows Start Menu. It should minimize the chance of problematic upgrades.
If you have a problem upgrading, you may see warning message boxes pop up when loading the Eamon CS solution. They read (in part):
The XYZ package did not load correctly.
Where XYZ is a package name that varies. The solution to this problem is simple, purge the contents of Visual Studio's component cache:
1. Open an Administrator Command Prompt 2. CD %localappdata%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\17.0_*\ComponentModelCache 3. Verify you are in the ComponentModelCache directory before proceeding to delete its contents 4. DEL /F /Q *
Note: the directory 17.0_* corresponds to the version number for Visual Studio 2022; other Visual Studios will differ.
The next time the Eamon CS solution opens in Visual Studio, it will rebuild the cache, and everything should work as expected.