Modify, Repair, And Uninstall Visual Studio 2017 Using Visual Studio Installer

Introduction

This article explains how to modify already installed Visual Studio 2017 using Visual Studio Installer. We can Repair and uninstall Visual Studio 2017 using the Visual Studio installer. If we missed installing in Visual Studio we need not uninstall and again install. We can add directly without uninstalling only which we have missed by Visual Studio installer.

Open Visual Studio Installer

We can open the Visual Studio installer if already installed VS 2017. If not installed, we cannot open it because it is not available in our system.

Go to Start >> All Programs >> “Visual Studio 2017” >> “Visual Studio Installer”. Now, click Visual Studio Installer.

Visual studio installer

Click the “Yes” button and the Visual Studio Installer will open. There are three important options we can see in the installer.

Modify
Repair
Uninstall

Modify

Modify is used to add extra features in Visual Studio 2017. If we have already installed Visual Studio 2017 but forgot to install any features, we can use the modify option we add new features. We do not uninstall and again re-install the full Visual Studio.

First, click Modify we can see that already installed features are selected. Now, select what are the new features that need to be added in Visual Studio 2017. Now we select “Azure development” and we can see the installation size for the selected one on the right side bottom in Visual Studio Installer.

Selected for add in visual studio

Now click the Modify button, after selecting what are the features going to add in Visual Studio 2017. We can see the Installation Progress.

Visual studio installer

After a few minutes selected features are installed successfully. Now click lunch and we use what are features installed. We installed Azure development; we can see that all Azure templates look like the below screenshot.

Azure data lake

Repair

If any problems or corrupted files in Visual Studio 2017 using Repair, we can resolve all problems.

First, open Visual Studio Installer and Click repair options look like the below screenshot.

Repair

After clicking repair options progress options will be open. The repair will take some minutes to complete. If need to cancel the repair in the intermediate, click cancel and stop the repair.

Installed

After finishing the repair click the restart button. We should restart our system after restarting will reflect in Visual Studio 2017.

Product

Uninstall

We can uninstall Visual Studio 2017 using Visual Studio Installer. If no need for Visual Studio 2017 we can uninstall it without going “Programs and Features” in the control panel. Open Visual Studio Installer and click the uninstall option.

Unistall

After clicking uninstalls then clicking OK for continuing to uninstall looks like the below screenshots.

Product

Uninstall will continue after clicking the ok button. Now progress bar will be open and the uninstall percentage will look like the below screenshot.

Installing

After uninstall we can see the likes below screenshot. If need to install it again we can install it directly.

Available

Conclusion

This article explained how to Modify, Repair, and uninstall using Visual Studio Installer in Visual Studio 2017. It helps new learners and those who are willing to use Visual Studio 2017.