How do I uninstall the atlassian visual studio 2012 connector?

[Deleted user]

After installing it my VS has really slowed down, and I would like to uninstall it, but I can't figure out how.

[Janusz Gorycki · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Have you tried disabling issue links scanning in the general settings dialog? This makes the connector stop trying to parse source files and should increase responsiveness of Visual Studio.

If you really want to uninstall the connector, you can do it from the computer's control panel ("Add/Remove Programs")

Cheers
Janusz

[Deleted user]

I'll try disabling the issue scanning.

The connector doesn't show in add/remove programs. Which is why I'm having such a hard time uninstalling it.

[Deleted user]

Although still unable to uninstall. It seems to be a moot point now. It would appear that turnning of the parsing has fixed my slowness. Thanks for all your help.

[Deleted user]

I tried following the steps above and I still ran into issues. So this is what I did.

Step 1: Install "revo unistaller"

Step 2: reinstall atlassian connector

Step 3: user revo to uninstall the connector

Revo goes through the registry and filesystem to remove any leftovers.

It worked perfectly for me.

[Janusz Gorycki]

Hi,

I have just released version 1.3.11 of the connector. When you install it, it uninstalls properly from VS 2012 (and 2013 too)

[dglick-sipc]

I had this same problem. I had to follow the instructions to remove registry keys to fully get rid of the connector.

[Chris Antes]

I also had this problem, except I would get a warning (Yes/No dialog with a yellow triangle and exclamation mark):

The 'Atlassian.plvs.PlvsPackage, plvs2010, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PlublicKeyToken=null' package did not load correctly.

[...]

This is after attempting to uninstall from Tools > Extensions and Updates, then from the Windows Add/Remove programs dialog, then by Deleting the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Atlassian folder.

I took a look at the log (C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\ActivityLog.xml), and found the GUID for the extension, which upon a registry search, led me to the following keys:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsof\VisualStudio\11.0_Config\Packages
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsof\VisualStudio\11.0_Config\InstalledProducts\PlvsPackage
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsof\VisualStudio\11.0_Config\IssueRepositoryConnectors
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsof\VisualStudio\11.0_Config\Menus
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsof\VisualStudio\11.0_Config\ToolWindows
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\InstalledProducts\PlvsPackage
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\IssueRepositoryConnectors

I carefully removed keys and values related to the extension, and I no longer get the error when starting Visual Studio.

[Janusz Gorycki]

send it to jgorycki@atlassian.com

[Janusz Gorycki]

Can you run visual studio with a /log option and send me the log file? Its location is described in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4809430/visual-studio-log-file (substitute 9.0 version with 11.0 in the path)

[Deleted user]

How do I send you the log file. Also, I have a meeting in 5 minutes, so it may be a while.

I've generated the file already, but it's too big to paste here.

[Janusz Gorycki]

what was the error message?

[Deleted user]

An exception has been encountered. This may be caused by an extension.

You can get more information by examining the file 'c:\uers\jsosa...'.

[Janusz Gorycki]

Can you try manually removing "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Atlassian\Atlassian Connector" folder?

[Deleted user]

Sadly, no good. When I did that I got error messages when opening my solution, and I couldn't see any code anymore.

At this point, I think that I'll have to completely do a full unistallation of visual studio and do a clean install. Hopefully, turning off the parsing will help. Because I won't have time to do this for a while.

[Janusz Gorycki]

you can try "C:\Program Files (x86)\Atlassian Connector For Visual Studio\uninstall.exe"

[Deleted user]

The only thing in that folder is a png file.

[Janusz Gorycki]

hmm, it looks like you already uninstalled the connector, but somehow not all files got removed. Could you install the connector again and then uninstall?

[Deleted user]

Thanks for your help so far..

Okay so I reinstalled it, and it showed in the control panel. I closed all instances of VS and uninstalled it from there. Opened visual studio and it was still there. So I reinstalled it again, and this time I uninstalled it from the program files folder, and I ran the uninstallation as an administrator. Opened VS, still there.