Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022 Version 17.12.1 VisualStudio.17.Release/17.12.1+35514.174 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 4.12.0-3.24558.5+21192bfc323cbdd5a1f6e5dadca56ef0558c8adf 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 6.12.1 NuGet Package Manager in Visual Studio. For more information about NuGet, visit https://docs.nuget.org/ Razor (ASP.NET Core) 17.12.3.2451803+13fe97052e82683ec4c9fc916531eba5c751037f Provides languages services for ASP.NET Core Razor. TypeScript Tools 17.0.30918.2001 TypeScript Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Visual Basic Tools 4.12.0-3.24558.5+21192bfc323cbdd5a1f6e5dadca56ef0558c8adf 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.