Visual Studio 2022 Developer Command Prompt Stuck on Loading Screen

Question

After opening the Visual Studio 2022 Developer Command Prompt, the loading screen gets stuck.

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** Visual Studio 2022 Developer Command Prompt v17.13.0
** Copyright (c) 2022 Microsoft Corporation
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In Task Manager, it shows that pwsh has very high usage. Also, vcpkg is not working, displaying the following error:

error: in triplet x64-windows: Unable to find a valid Visual Studio instance

Could not locate a complete Visual Studio instance

The following paths were examined for Visual Studio instances:

    D:\Microsoft Visual Studio\BuildTools\VC\Auxiliary/Build\vcvarsall.bat

Repairing the installation has not resolved the issue.

I only installed Build Tools, not the IDE. Is there any relevance?

Answer 1

Hi @Steve Yu,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A! 

Did you install any workloads when installing the Visual Studio Build Tools? 

Please open the Visual Studio Installer > Modify > ensure that the “Desktop development with C++” workload is installed. Then, reboot your machine and check it again.

Besides, Visual Studio Build Tools are only CLI tools and you can install the build tools and VS IDE side by side. I recommend you install the Visual Studio 2022 Community, Professional or Enterprise edition.

Download Visual Studio Tools - Install Free for Windows, Mac, Linux 

Sincerely,

Anna

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