Visual Studio 2015 RC Stuck at Phone Emulator Installation

Question

I have successfully installed the core Visual Studio 2015 and Windows 10 tools. However, while trying to install emulators for Windows Mobile 10.0.10069, the installer stops at around 80% and never proceeds forward. The screenshot shows Task Manager too.

@magicandre1981I am on the build 10074 - the latest available when question was posted. I have managed to work around by using web installer specifically for emulators. I'll see if anyone has better solution than downloading huge amounts of data. If not, I'll post it as answer. — akshay2000, Jun 01 '15 at 06:02

score 11 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 30 '15 at 10:53

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Was happening to me on both 10166 and 10240 builds. On the 10240 build I opened task manager after waiting quite a while and killed (Vs)SecondaryInstaller. The VS2015 main installer continued immediately and finished without errors. Later did a repair of the VS Installation just to be on the safe side.

answered Jul 30 '15 at 10:53

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Yes it seems to install fine but fails to quit the secondary installer. Simply ending the process allows the setup to continue. – Mo Beigi Sep 24 '15 at 21:17
Worked for me ^^ that saved my day! – Anis LOUNIS aka AnixPasBesoin Mar 11 '16 at 11:55

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 04 '15 at 12:28

I solved the issue by using web installer. Even this web installer may not work well with the dev machine. Solution is to run installer on another machine (Windows 8.1 works. Any other Windows should work too.) and choose download option. Then move the downloaded directory to dev machine and install emulators from that directory.

Visual Studio 2015 RC Stuck at Phone Emulator Installation

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