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Jan 13th, 2015 at 7:16pm
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Is Visual Micro MALWARE/SPYWARE.  I have never had so much trouble with a piece of software (an extension or add-on especially) unless it was meant to cause trouble.

I could not get Visual Micro to stop displaying a Pop-up window asking for donations each time I loaded a Visual Studio project, so i uninstalled Visual micro.

now, i cannot reinstall Visual Micro and i need the Arduino project options for my current project that has now come to a standstill because of that pop-up for donations.

Can anyone help?

I am using Win7, Visual Studio 2013 Professional (fresh install), and Arduino 1.0.6. (fresh install).  Each time I try to install the ArduinoforVisualStudio.msi I get errors telling me:

"The file Arduinoforvisualstudio.msi is not a valid installation package for Arduinoforvisualstudio.msi", or that the file is located on a network resource that is unavailable.

Please help!  I am falling further behind every minute I cannot move forward with this project.

Thanks for taking your time to view this problem I am having.
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Re: Not valid installation package? What?!?!?!? FU Visual Micro for Arduino!!!!!
Reply #1 - Jan 13th, 2015 at 7:23pm
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Hi, this is a Microsoft or windows issue. Visual micro has no control over msi files or what is used to unpack and run them. First suggestion would be to try running from a secure location such as my documents. Also to ensure you have .net 3.5 enabled.

What I can say is that thousands of people have installed the same msi without issue.

Let me know if that doesn't help and I will google it for you

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The popup donations records the fact that it has opened in the windows registry which might be preventing our updates due to permissions or that you were using a very old version of visual micro which expired but in that case it should have prompted you to upgrade. 

Only the free non-paid versions used to expire but the latest releases of Visual micro no longer do that because it's not worth the support hassle. 
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Reply #3 - Jan 13th, 2015 at 7:39pm
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I will give each a try, thanks for the response.

Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Jan 13th, 2015 at 7:23pm:
Hi, this is a Microsoft or windows issue. Visual micro has no control over msi files or what is used to unpack and run them. First suggestion would be to try running from a secure location such as my documents. Also to ensure you have .net 3.5 enabled.

What I can say is that thousands of people have installed the same msi without issue.

Let me know if that doesn't help and I will google it for you

Thanks

  
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Reply #4 - Jan 13th, 2015 at 8:42pm
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All I can say is, "hmmm..."  Thanks for the info!

I will see what I can figure out.

The pop-up is what caused me to start removing and uninstalling.  I am venting because of frustration, but I do thank all of your great efforts that are working for others.  When I get it working, I hope the frustration was worth the effort.

Truly, thank you for providing an answer to many's dilemma.  I removed a portion of the title because I see that it could easily be construed as a lack of appreciation, rather that my retort to the "install.msi"'s message as it was intended.  Sorry about that.


Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Jan 13th, 2015 at 7:27pm:
The popup donations records the fact that it has opened I the windows registry. If it cant write to the registry due to permissions problems then it will keep opening. Again no other reports of that

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Reply #5 - Jan 13th, 2015 at 9:19pm
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Hi,

I think our messages crossed I had edited the comment I made because I realized you were on quite an old release of Visual Micro which did force upgrade if you had not purchased. Visual Micro used to force upgrade because it was always the free version users that upgraded their arduino ide but not visual micro. Then reporting issues in the forum because visual micro didn't work with the arduino software that had not been written when visual micro was released  Undecided

Anyway, after some consideration it was decided to force the upgrade but that shouldn't cause the prompt to buy to appear each time you opened a sketch. Maybe that was a bug I will re-test sometime but hopefully when you get the installer issue fixed it will no longer be important.

I suspect that the problem is also related to the fact the installer is .net3.5. We will shortly update to 4.0 which would be better but currently there are a number of old xp users still with VS2008. The day is coming/close where we have to stop support for that.

You could also try renaming the file after download just in case .net is confused with its msi installer cache.

One other thing to check is to open control panel>add or remove programs and ensure that all instances of "Visual Micro for Arduino" are removed from the list


  
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