Error while installing Oracle Development Tools 18.3.0.0.0 for Visual Studio 2017

Question

While Installing the Oracle Development Tools for VS 2017, I came upon this error message and I have not been able solve it so far.

Error Message pointing me to a log file

The error Message points me to a log file in which the following stacktrace is found:

1/9/2020 3:39:09 PM - System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. ---> System.OperationCanceledException: Pre-check verification failed with warning(s) : AnotherInstallationRunning. ---> Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.CanceledByPrecheckException: Pre-check verification failed with warning(s) : AnotherInstallationRunning. --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.PrecheckManager.RunPrechecks(PrecheckParameters precheckParameters, VariableCollection properties) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Engine.RunPrecheck(String destination, Product product, ExecuteAction action, IWindowsRestartManager rmService, ITelemetryOperation installOperation, InstallOperation install) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Engine.Install(Product product, String destination, CancellationToken token) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.SetupEngineService.<Install>b__14_0() at System.Threading.Tasks.Task1.InnerInvoke() at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Execute() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Telemetry.WindowsErrorReporting.WatsonReport.GetClrWatsonExceptionInfo(Exception exceptionObject) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.ThrowIfExceptional(Boolean includeTaskCanceledExceptions) at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Wait(Int32 millisecondsTimeout, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.SetupEngineService.Install() at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.ExtensionBatchEngine.Execute(List1 installableExtensions, Version targetVsVersion) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.ExtensionEngineImpl.BatchEngineInstall(List1 installableExtensions, InstallFlags installFlags, Version targetVsVersion) at VSIXInstaller.BatchSetupEngineInstaller.Install(SupportedVSSKU sku, List1 extensionsToInstall, InstallFlags installFlags) at VSIXInstaller.BatchSetupEngineInstaller.BatchInstall(IReadOnlyList1 targetSkus, IEnumerable1 extensionsToInstall) at VSIXInstaller.SilentEngine.Execute(ExtensionData data) at VSIXInstaller.App.OnStartup(StartupEventArgs e) ---> (Inner Exception #0) System.OperationCanceledException: Pre-check verification failed with warning(s) : AnotherInstallationRunning. ---> Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.CanceledByPrecheckException: Pre-check verification failed with warning(s) : AnotherInstallationRunning. --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.PrecheckManager.RunPrechecks(PrecheckParameters precheckParameters, VariableCollection properties) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Engine.RunPrecheck(String destination, Product product, ExecuteAction action, IWindowsRestartManager rmService, ITelemetryOperation installOperation, InstallOperation install) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Engine.Install(Product product, String destination, CancellationToken token) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.SetupEngineService.<Install>b__14_0() at System.Threading.Tasks.Task1.InnerInvoke() at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Execute() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Telemetry.WindowsErrorReporting.WatsonReport.GetClrWatsonExceptionInfo(Exception exceptionObject)<---

The gist of it in my understanding is that there is another installation running while it tries to install the Visual Studio extension. I didn't of course install something myself during the process, but I also checked the task manager if there is ein msiexec process running. Sometimes there was one running but I got the same error message while there was no msiexec process running.

The only way I can imagine two installers running is that the Oracle Development Tools installer starts the Visual Studio extension installer. Then there are two installers running. However I do not quite believe in that conclusion as this should have been occurred somewhere else before but I haven't found my error message anywhere.

The things I have tried:

• Multiple Reinstall with restarts and running as admin.
• I have tried to manuelly install the extension after the error occurs, which ends successfully, however when I try to use the custom tools in visual studio I get an error message.

Visual Studio 2017 Verison: 15.9.18

Oracle Development Tools Version: 18.3.0.0.0

Answer 1

In my case the execution of the following file solved this issue:

Oracle.VsDevTools.15.0.vsix

Here you can find this file: C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Oracle Developer Tools for VS2017\\odt