Force uninstall of Visual Studio

I was running in to the same issue, but have just managed a full uninstall by means of trusty old CMD: D:\vs_ultimate.exe /uninstall /force Where D: is the location of your installation media (mounted iso, etc). You could also pass /passive (no user input required – just progress displayed) or /quiet to the above command … Read more

Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.Build.Framework'(VS 2017)

I believe I had the same issue as you did. I didn’t save the whole error message, but my error message was ‘Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.Build.Framework, Version=15.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.‘ I am using Visual Studio 2017 and was trying to do … Read more