A product matching the following parameters cannot be found during VS Installation

Question

I've tried all the solution available at StackOverflow and VS developer community but I'm unable to resolve the error saying.

A product matching the following parameters cannot be found:

channelId:  VisualStudio.15.Release
productId:  Microsoft.VisualStudio.Product.Community

Here are the solutions that I've tried.

• tried deleting the VS folder in Program Files
• tried running InstallCleanup.exe -i with cmd (as administrator)
• tried running InstallCleanup.exe -f with cmd (as administrator)
• tried deleting VS packages from Program Data
• tried installing with new and old both packages

Answer 1

I had this problem and was able to solve with following steps

1. Open a command prompt with admin privileges
2. Run following command (this will clean up previous install cache. -full option is important) "%programfiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\resources\app\layout\InstallCleanup.exe" -full
3. Restart the installer

Hope this helps. Just to add, I did not have to uninstall VS 2015 for this to work.