Roslyn VISX installer crashes with System.UriFormatException? Try installing as Administrator
Installing Roslyn on a machine where I had local administrator rights worked without issues. At work though, the installer crashed and the following event was logged:
Fault bucket , type 0
Event Name: CLR20r3
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0
Problem signature:
P1: vsixinstaller.exe
P2: 12.0.30324.0
P3: 532f5607
P4: System
P5: 4.0.30319.18408
P6: 52311185
P7: 1cf7
P8: 75
P9: System.UriFormatException
P10:
To overcome this, open a Development command prompt with administrator priviledges, go to the folder where Roslyn is stored and execute:
vsixinstaller "Roslyn End User Preview.vsix"