Hi,
I have followed the order of product installation below:
1) SQL Server Developer 2016
2) Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise
3) SSMS 2016
I noticed several disturbing things:
- SQL Server setup installed "Microsoft Visual Studio Tools For Applications"
=> SQL Server setup installed VSTA even though no VS installation exists
- SQL Server 2014 Express LocalDB was installed by VS setup
- SQL Server 2016 LocalDB was installed by VS setup
=> I'm using SQL Server 2016 Developer edition I dont want any "Express / LocalDB" edition to be installed (especially one of past version like 2014).
=> VS setup don't let us choose to install them or not
=> VS setup did not detect the existing SQL Server installation
- SSMS setup installed "Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Shell (Isolated)"
=> SSMS setup did not detect the existing VS 2015 installation
=> SSMS setup installed a separate Visual Studio 2015 Shell
=> several different installations of Visual Studio 2015 exist locally which is quite ugly and might cause problem with update / service pack
Any idea in order to be able to do a cleaner installation and avoid those products redundancy ?
Thanks.