microsoft / microsoft/react-native-windows
Add warning to run-windows if we can't find VS and have a pending restart
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Area: CLI
Area: Developer Experience
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Description
If a user updates VS but hasn't restarted yet, we get a cryptic error because VSWhere doesn't return anything. Manually launching VS will show a popup of the real reason we can't find anything.
We can detect pending restart via reg key. We should consider adding a warning/special casing this to give a better message.
vswhere output:
C:\Users\nickg>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vswhere.exe"
Visual Studio Locator version 2.7.1+180c706d56 [query version 2.6.2111.5687]
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\nickg>
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Research direction
Start with the run-windows entry point and inspect how it handles empty vswhere output. Check the registry key used to detect a pending restart, then define the warning or special-case behavior that should replace the cryptic error when Visual Studio cannot be found.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100