Error Downloading and Installing SonarLint for Visual Studio 2022

SonarQube for IDE Visual Studio
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  • Operating system: Windows 10
  • Visual Studio version: 2022 Professional
  • SonarLint plugin version: none atm
  • Programming language you’re coding in: VB .NET
  • Is connected mode used: no
    • Connected to SonarCloud or SonarQube (and which version):

The SonarLint for Visual Studio 2022 extension fails in download or install regardless of method used.
-If I download through Visual Studio, by selecting Manage Extensions > Visual Studio Marketplace > SonarLint for Visual Studio 2022, we see error “One or more extensions could not be installed because the following errors occurred: An exception occurred during a WebClient request.”
-If I browse to the marketplace.visualstudio.com page for ‘SonarLint for Visual Studio 2022’ and select ‘Download’, the download fails.
-I was able to download the VSIX file (SonarLint.VSIX-7.5.0.82292-2022.vsix) from the SonarSource GitHub, but the install fails every time, continuously running without erroring out.

A team member checked and faced the same errors with this extension.
We are able to download unrelated extensions without issues.
The two most recent reviewers on the VS Marketplace page are also unable to download this extension.

Is there anything else I can do?

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Hello @dw93rj0rfl and welcome to the community!

Could you please provide the VSIX install log? You can click the hyperlink at the bottom left corner of the VSIX Installer window (the one that appears after you press install and close the VS).

In general, however, we do not have the ability to run custom code during the installation process, so the error most likely is on VS’ side. We will need the log file to determine the actual cause.

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I have the same issue when installing via the extension manager in VS - then tried downloading the latest package from the market place and the following appears in the log after it fails:

7-3-2024 08:41:22 - Microsoft VSIX Installer
7-3-2024 08:41:22 - -------------------------------------------
7-3-2024 08:41:22 - vsixinstaller.exe version:
7-3-2024 08:41:22 - 17.9.3174+fce230bb0d
7-3-2024 08:41:22 - -------------------------------------------
7-3-2024 08:41:22 - Command line parameters:
7-3-2024 08:41:22 - C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\resources\app\ServiceHub\Services\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Service\VSIXInstaller.exe,C:\Users\xxxxx\Downloads\SonarLint.VSIX-7.7.0.86423-2022.vsix
7-3-2024 08:41:22 - -------------------------------------------
7-3-2024 08:41:22 - Microsoft VSIX Installer
7-3-2024 08:41:22 - -------------------------------------------
7-3-2024 08:41:22 - Initializing Install...
7-3-2024 08:41:22 - Searching for applicable products...
7-3-2024 08:41:23 - System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.InvalidExtensionPackageException: The file is not a valid VSIX package. ---> System.IO.FileFormatException: File contains corrupted data.
   at MS.Internal.IO.Zip.ZipIOEndOfCentralDirectoryBlock.FindPosition(Stream archiveStream)
   at MS.Internal.IO.Zip.ZipIOEndOfCentralDirectoryBlock.SeekableLoad(ZipIOBlockManager blockManager)
   at MS.Internal.IO.Zip.ZipArchive..ctor(Stream archiveStream, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Boolean streaming, Boolean ownStream)
   at MS.Internal.IO.Zip.ZipArchive.OpenOnStream(Stream stream, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Boolean streaming)
   at System.IO.Packaging.ZipPackage..ctor(Stream s, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Boolean streaming)
   at System.IO.Packaging.Package.Open(Stream stream, FileMode packageMode, FileAccess packageAccess, Boolean streaming)
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.InstallableExtensionImpl.ReadVSIXManifestFromPackage(Stream stream, CultureInfo preferredCulture)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.InstallableExtensionImpl.ReadVSIXManifestFromPackage(Stream stream, CultureInfo preferredCulture)
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.InstallableExtensionImpl..ctor(String path, CultureInfo preferredCulture)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethod(Object target, Object[] arguments, Signature sig, Boolean constructor)
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeConstructorInfo.Invoke(BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture)
   at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(BindingFlags bindingAttr, Binder binder, Object[] args, CultureInfo culture, Object[] activationAttributes, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
   at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, BindingFlags bindingAttr, Binder binder, Object[] args, CultureInfo culture, Object[] activationAttributes)
   at System.Reflection.Assembly.CreateInstance(String typeName, Boolean ignoreCase, BindingFlags bindingAttr, Binder binder, Object[] args, CultureInfo culture, Object[] activationAttributes)
   at VSIXInstaller.ExtensionEngineFactoryForSku.GetTypeFromEngine[TInterface](SupportedVSSKU sku, String typeName, Object[] constructorArguments)
   at VSIXInstaller.ExtensionService.GetInstallableDataImpl(String vsixPath, String extensionPackParentName, Boolean isRepairSupported, IStateData stateData, IEnumerable`1& skuData)
   at VSIXInstaller.ExtensionService.GetInstallableData(String vsixPath, String extensionPackParentName, Boolean isRepairSupported, IStateData stateData, IEnumerable`1& skuData)
   at VSIXInstaller.ExtensionPackService.IsExtensionPack(IStateData stateData, Boolean isRepairSupported)
   at VSIXInstaller.ExtensionPackService.ExpandExtensionPackToInstall(IStateData stateData, Boolean isRepairSupported)
   at VSIXInstaller.App.Initialize(Boolean isRepairSupported)
   at VSIXInstaller.App.Initialize()
   at System.Threading.Tasks.Task`1.InnerInvoke()
   at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Execute()
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Hello @Demitri_Baroutsos

After consulting with my colleagues we think there might be an issue with the download process. Could you please provide the vsix package you downloaded (or at least its size)? We want to verify that the file didn’t get corrupted during the download.

In the meantime, you could try installing the same artifact from our GitHub releases page - Release 7.7 · SonarSource/sonarlint-visualstudio · GitHub

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Hi Georgii, the file size is 45662208 bytes in length (42.5MB) - definitely a file size discrepancy as the zip file downloaded from the Github repo (v7.7 tag) is 56.6MB (59430591 bytes).

The newer one downloaded from Github repo works! Also, redownloading the package from the VS Marketplace now matches the filesize exactly of the one downloaded from GitHub.

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I have noticed that this seldom happens to our users for no apparent reason. Do you use any proxies or other things that can interfere with the VS download process by any chance?

I have personally never been able to reproduce the problem with VS Marketplace and it is most likely out of our control. We push the same artifact to the marketplace as the one on GitHub. We also cannot run any of our code during the download & installation process, it is completely handled by the VS, which eliminates the possibility of it being some sort of bug we have introduced.

Anyway, I’m glad that the GitHub link worked. Hopefully, there won’t be any issues with the marketplace updates for you in the future!

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No proxies I’m aware of - also didn’t have any issues with any of the other VS extensions we use when installing. To try and eliminate VS as the culprit I downloaded it via the market-place and that’s where I also go the error and hence my original response on this post.

So either it has been re-updated in the VS market place (since it downloads to the correct size) or it was just a glitch in the Matrix :wink:

Thanks for the quick response though.

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JFYI our latest release (7.7) was pushed to the marketplace on February 28, 2024.

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