Failed to install exenstions and updates for Visual Studio 2017 RC (15.0.26014.0)

Question

I recently installed Visual Studio 2017 RC (15.0.26014.0) and tried to install extensions. However, installing any extension using the menu "Tools-> Extensions and Updates" fails. The following is the installation log.

27-Dec-16 10:35:19 AM - Beginning to install extension to Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 RC... 27-Dec-16 10:35:19 AM - Install Error : System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Unable to find the specified file. at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.ExtensionEngineImpl.GetCurrentSetupInstance() at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.ExtensionEngineImpl.PerformSetupEngineInstall(InstallableExtensionImpl extension, Boolean installPerMachine, Boolean isPackComponent, IDictionary`2 extensionsInstalledSoFar, List`1 extensionsUninstalledSoFar, IInstalledExtensionList modifiedInstalledExtensionsList, IProgress`1 progress, InstallFlags installFlags, AsyncOperation asyncOp, IInstalledExtension& newExtension) Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.ExtensionEngineImpl.InstallInternal (InstallableExtensionImpl extension, InstallFlags installFlags, IDictionary`2 extensionsInstalledSoFar, List`1 extensionsUninstalledSoFar, IInstalledExtensionList modifiedInstalledExtensionsList, AsyncOperation asyncOp, IProgress`1 progress) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.ExtensionEngineImpl.BeginInstall(IInstallableExtension installableExtension, InstallFlags installFlags, AsyncOperation asyncOp) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.ExtensionEngineImpl.InstallWorker(IInstallableExtension extension, InstallFlags installFlags, AsyncOperation asyncOp) 

I checked and found that the corresponding VSIX file is present in the temp folder (C: \ Users \ xxxxx \ AppData \ Local \ Temp)

Answer 1

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