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Uninstall third-party applications deployed by the secondary installer in Visual Studio 2015

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This article explains how to uninstall the third-party applications that are installed using the secondary installer for Microsoft Visual Studio 2015.

Original product version:   Visual Studio 2015
Original KB number:   3016536

What's secondary installer

Visual Studio 2015 has a secondary installer that lets you install third-party applications that support development of cross platform and mobile applications. When Visual Studio 2015 is uninstalled, the third-party applications may still remain installed. These third-party applications may or may not have entries in Add or Remove Programs item in Control Panel.

The following sections provide more information about the third-party applications that the secondary installer lets you deploy on your computer, and instructions about how to uninstall them.

Uninstall Android Software Development Kit (SDK), Apple iTunes, Git, Google Chrome, Joyent Node.js, and Oracle Java Development Kit (JDK)

These apps have entries in the Add or Remove Programs item in Control Panel and can be uninstalled from there.

Uninstall Android Native Development Kit (NDK)

The Android NDK doesn't have an entry in the Add or Remove Programs item in Control Panel. It's installed locally in this folder: %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Apps

The Android NDK can be removed by removing the android-ndk-r10 folder from the hard disk.

Uninstall Apache Ant

Ant doesn't have an entry in the Programs and Features item in Control Panel. To uninstall this application, follow these steps:

  1. Find the Ant installation folder on the hard disk by typing set ant at a command prompt to see the Ant environment variable. The variable points to the folder.
  2. Locate and delete the folder.

Uninstall Websocket4Net

Websocket4Net is installed as a DLL of Windows 7 operating system only. To uninstall this application, follow these steps:

  1. Locate the Visual Studio 14.0 installation folder. By default, it's installed in this folder: %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0.

  2. In the root folder for Visual Studio, locate the Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\WebClient\Diagnostics\ToolWindows subfolder and delete WebSocket4Net.dll.

Third-party information disclaimer

The third-party products that this article discusses are manufactured by companies that are independent of Microsoft. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, about the performance or reliability of these products.