Administration guide to Lucent Sky AVM for Visual Studio

2024/9/4 |

This article covers the installation, configuration, removal of Lucent Sky AVM for Visual Studio.

In this article, you will learn how to:

  • Install Lucent Sky AVM for Visual Studio
  • Uninstall Lucent Sky AVM for Visual Studio

At the end, you will be able to install and uninstall Lucent Sky AVM for Visual Studio.

System Requirements

Processor, memory, and hard disk space requirements:

  • Processor: 1.6 GHz processor
  • Memory: 2 GB
  • Hard disk space: 200 MB

The 64-bit version of Lucent Sky AVM for Visual Studio requires .NET Framework 4.8 or later, and can be installed with the following versions of Visual Studio:

  • Visual Studio 2022 Enterprise, Professional, and Community

The 32-bit version of Lucent Sky AVM for Visual Studio requires .NET Framework 4.6 or later, and can be installed with the following versions of Visual Studio:

  • Visual Studio 2019 Enterprise, Professional, and Community
  • Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise, Professional, and Community
  • Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise, Professional, and Community

Lucent Sky AVM for Visual Studio might also work with Visual Studio versions that have reached end of support, such as Visual Studio 2012[^](## "Visual Studio 2012 has reached end of support on January 2023.") and Visual Studio 2013[^](## "Visual Studio 2013 has reached end of support on April 2024."). However, these scenarios are not supported.

Lucent Sky AVM for Visual Studio does not support Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio Express, or Visual Studio for Mac.

Install Lucent Sky AVM for Visual Studio

  1. Lucent Sky AVM for Visual Studio requires the cross-platform Lucent Sky AVM CLI. Before installing Lucent Sky AVM for Visual Studio, install Lucent Sky AVM CLI.

    Lucent Sky AVM for Visual Studio will attempt to locate Lucent Sky AVM CLI in the following locations:

    • %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\CLEAR CLI
    • %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\clear-cli
    • C:\Program Files\Lucent Sky\CLEAR CLI

    To learn more about how to install Lucent Sky AVM CLI, view the following article in the Lucent Sky Knowledge Base: Administration guide to Lucent Sky AVM CLI

  2. Close all Visual Studio instances.
  3. Extract the .vsix files from the Lucent Sky AVM for Visual Studio setup package.
  4. To install the 64-bit version, run the .vsix file in the X64 directory. To install the 32-bit version, run the .vsix file in the X86 directory.
  5. Select the Visual Studio instances to install Lucent Sky AVM for Visual Studio.

Uninstall Lucent Sky AVM for Visual Studio

  1. In Visual Studio, open the menu bar, select Tools > Extensions and Updates or Extensions > Manage Extensions.
  2. Select Lucent Sky AVM for Visual Studio, then select Uninstall.
  3. Repeat these steps for every Visual Studio instance with the Lucent Sky AVM for Visual Studio installed.