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Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Hi Randy, Thank you for giving us an opportunity to assist you with the query. How satisfied are you with this reply? I've found Microsoft's search tool useless since Win 7. Here is what it came up with when looking for windows. I've looked for a forum on MS's search feature, with no luck. Add the include path to VS path and then try it again.

Run the VS setup program through the control panel applet e. I chose to install everything, here is the list of features from the setup program under the control panel you suggested:. Why wouldn't the VS's windows. Did the install of VS wipe some VS off of the drive? This isn't a problem once I get VS working, just curious. If you want to use VS's toolset go into the project property page and change the toolset from v to v from memory I think that's the one.

Why is it my job to search for the include directories Visual Studio uses? Aren't there programs to do these things? I've used Windows Explorer search for winapifamily. Of course that's no reason to believe it's not there. I have a lot of folders defined in VS's list of include directories, executable directories and similar things.

Is there a method to tell VS to make a copy of these lists without copying the name of each folder? While I'm asking, where is the VS executible code? It doesn't get a shortcut on my desktop when I installed it and I'd like to add one. However, initial attempts to compile applications with VS have been disappointing.

I don't have anything urgent so let's push ahead with VS You should be able to build using VS's toolset from within VS if you change the Platform Toolset as described above. While the manual addition of a file path i. These have been wiped in the debug configuration. I did look at the list of include folders in the edit box that pops up while looking at the different configurations, in debug mode. I've been careful, and I don't believe I erased any that would have popped up in the edit box.

The paths that I posted above came from the project properties but after I selected Edit from the dropdown. Selecting Edit opens a dialog box that show the actual path strings, not just the VS macro names. Because there seems to be something wrong with the VS install, indicated by the fact that I have to tell it where to find windows.

Perhaps things will be smoother if I get rid of everything this and previous Visual Studio installs added to my computer. This is a chronological sort of my "Programs and Features" window. I'd like guidance on what I can remove in order to make VS install smoothly.

I recognize a few of these programs as not relating to Visual Studios, but most of them are. I'm not using Microsoft's SQL server, though other's programs might be. Visual Studio and it's service packs install so much software that I think it's not advisable to try to cherry pick things to uninstall.

The first thing to do is to make a good backup. You should also consider making an image backup of your system as well as a file based backup.

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