Just some findings of going over the manual installation instructions again today:
There seem to be a few slightly confusing statements in the manual install instructions ((- BROKEN LINK -)
Quote:If in future you choose to upgrade to a new version via installer or a newer zip package, make sure you remove ALL the installed files from the previous version first, then perform steps 3 and 4 (running devenv /setup) in order to reset Visual Studio's extension cache.
This should probably be "step 4 to 7".
Quote:If you wish to remove NCrunch, you need to delete the installed files and then also perform steps 3 and 4 again.
This should probably be "step 5 to 7" (I doubt you mean that to uninstall, you need the Remco Software directory to be filled with the contents of a new ZIP.
On the download page of the product, it says:
Quote:(Requires manual installation. For troubleshooting only)
For 2017, this is the only way to install it whenever you have more than one side-by-side installation of Visual Studio 2017, which becomes more common nowadays. In other words, not "only for troubleshooting".
And one suggestionFrom VS 2017 15.2 onwards (the RTM is at 15.4 I believe), vswhere.exe is part of the Common Tools (see
https://github.com/Microsoft/vswhere). This makes it much easier to automate the ZIP-installation with a batch script. Since I am bound to have to repeat this manual process quite often (as long as there's no way to install NCrunch on side-by-side installations), I will try to look into this. It may help others, too. The most recent version of vswhere.exe includes my proposed fix to find an installation by its nickname (see
https://github.com/Microsoft/vswhere/issues/104).
