Uninstalling the VS2010 extension without the Extension Manager

Question

Hi all!

Is there any way to uninstall VS2010 extension correctly without the Extension Manager? I couldn't find any special command line arguments for .vsix file and think that just deleting all the files from Visual Studio's special place is not a right solution.

Thanks,

Kirill.

Answer 1

Yes, actually deleting the folder is exactly what you should do. A "pure" VSIX extension is just a unzip of the files to a folder under %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Extensions.

It's a good idea to check though that it wasn't installed through MSI or some other installer technology by verifying in Windows Add/Remove Programs.