Where is the Visual Studio Express 2015 executable located on Windows 10?

Question

I installed Visual Studio 2015 Express, but I can't find a shortcut icon anywhere. It also does not show up in Start menu Apps or via Search. I also see nothing in folder C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE

I need the executable to create a shortcut, so not the name to start it via the Run command prompt.

MC10 · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-19T18:18:35.900

It should be wherever you chose as the installation directory. I just ran the install and this was the default location.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0

To be sure, I installed all 3 versions of Visual Studio Express 2015. Here are their executables.

Express 2015 for Desktop = VSWinExpress.exe
Express 2015 for Web = VWDExpress.exe
Express 2015 for Windows = WDExpress.exe

They are all located in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE directory.

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 05 '15 at 12:07

Please type devenv command from in the run program, it will launch installed visual studio.

I also faced exact same issue after installing VS 2015 on my Win 7 machine. But before installing it, I uninstalled all previous version of VS hence devenv launched most updated VS which is VS 2015.

Hope this one is hopeful.

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 03 '21 at 06:13

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The explanation can be found here.

The Visual Studio Application icon/shortcut does not appear anymore in the VS folder.

In Windows 7, you can find it on the top of the "All Programs" list in the Start Menu.
In Windows 8, 8.1 and 10, it should appear in the "V" grouping in the menu.

edited Aug 03 '21 at 06:13

Glorfindel

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answered Dec 30 '15 at 09:03

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 20 '16 at 23:52

Easy way to find it: Select a project's solution --> open with --> in the drop down list, you will probably find the version of vs exe you want to find. Then open task manager and locate the location of the VS exe you are running at the moment. There you go :)

score -2 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 19 '17 at 13:08

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try C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe

answered Jun 19 '17 at 13:08

Vaibhav K

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score -2 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 04 '15 at 17:08

You may be having a problem with the fact that Windows 10 can only handle 512 installed applications in its start menu. Do a search for "Windows 10 512 apps" and you will find a lot of discussion about the problem. To see how many apps you have - Run Windows Powershell and enter the command "Get-StartApps | measure".

Where is the Visual Studio Express 2015 executable located on Windows 10?

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