Visual Studio 2017 RC installation failure "product ... cannot be found"

Question

I am trying to install Visual Studio Professional 2017 RC on Windows 10 but the installer reports:

A product matching the following parameters cannot be found:

channelId: VisualStudio.15.Release
productId: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Product.Professional

Is this fixable?

Answer 1

I had the same issue and the following has helped me. A clean-up and removal of vs and installation folder was not enough in my case.

Here are the steps I've taken:

• uninstalled Visual Studio (and other Visual Studio installations)
• run C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\InstallCleanup.exe -full"
• removed all the "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio" folders
• removed "C:\Program Data\Microsoft\Visual Studio\ folder
• restarted system

In the end I think removing of Program Data location did the final trick. I had to run a repair after the successful installation to make VS Extensions work.