Visual Studio 2012 Side by side configuration is incorrect

Question

When I run Visual Studio 2012 Professional I get a side by side configuration error message.

Message:

\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.

Answer 1

I encountered this problem today and found a crude way to solve it for me, without analyzing logs and looking for missing .dlls.

I opened up the system configuration and was about to de-intall VS2013 RC, when I realized there was an repair option. Trying this brought no effect, but I also saw that VS2012 for windows desktop and vs2012 for web were still installed.

So after a reboot this finally fixed my side-by-side error:

1. Cleanse the machine of any previously installed Visual Studio versions.
2. Reboot.
3. Repair the installed (and only left) version of Visual Studio
4. Reboot.

Maybe this is of use for everyone else who is encountering this problem in the future.

Kind regards