Visual studio 2013 installation troubleshooting

Question

I had some problems with my VS2013 and I uninstlled it.

After I uninstlled VS2013 I restarted my computer, downloaded from Microsoft's website .exe file Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2013 with Update 4 and I started installation process.

On the installation process I get this window:

In the window above on, Please provide a location to search for the packages text box I have this string:

C:\Users\userName\Downloads\packages\BuildTools_MSBuild_x86\BuildTools_MSBuild.msi

Any idea why I get this window and how to solve this issue?

Answer 1

You mention that you are using the .exe file from the website to install your Visual Studio. The .exe file is an online installer which, based on what you choose to install, will selectively download the packages that you need. If the online installer has any problems downloading any of the packages, the installation will fail.

I would suggest you download the .iso, which contains an offline installer. The offline installer contains all the packages necessary to install Visual Studio with all the options, and can be burnt onto a DVD. The advantage of this is that once you have downloaded it, you can install it on as many computers as you want without needing to download the same files for each machine.

Try downloading the .iso installer for the version you want: this will remove the possibility that the installer was unable to download part of the package. Optionally, use the File Checksum Integrity Verifier tool to check it's downloaded successfully.

I've included links to both the standard and the Ultimate versions since you mention Professional in the text of your question and the image says Ultimate.

• Visual Studio 2013 with Update 4

  • main download page
  • direct link to the .iso installer.

• Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 with Update 4

  • main download page
  • direct link to .iso installer.

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It looks like others have had your problem - I suspect your problem is the same as the problem in the social.msdn.microsoft.com thread Visual Studio 2013 Update 1 failing on Msi_BuildTools, "The hash value is not correct" which, while relating to 2013 Update 1, reads to me like the same problem. Using the .iso installer solved the problem there.

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Note that Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 has also been released - you can get the online installer from here or, if you have a Visual Studio account, you can download it from VisualStudio.com here.

Answer 2

I also faced the same problem while installing. I then clicked on

Download packages from the internet

and the installer downloaded everything it needs from internet.

If you don't have any problem to download from internet, you can select that option and continue with installing