Visual Studio Setup

Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products

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Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart
Apr 3, 2019

Configure Visual Studio across your organization with .vsconfig

Add a .vsconfig file to your solution root directory to configure Visual Studio consistently across your organization.

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Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart
Dec 10, 2018

Older versions of Visual Studio 2017 will not install in Windows Server 2019 containers

If you try to install Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 into a Windows Server 2019 or newer container image, such as or , the install will quickly terminate ...

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Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart
Nov 14, 2018

Workaround for 0x8007007e when trying to to locate an instance of Visual Studio

We are investigating how a particular rare problem occurs that can prevent clients like VSIXInstaller.exe, vswhere.exe, and others from finding any Visual ...

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Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart
Aug 8, 2018

Docker recipes available for Visual Studio Build Tools

Use or contribute your own Dockerfiles on GitHub to help others build similar workloads with Visual Studio Build Tools.

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Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart
Jun 14, 2018

No container image for Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017

The size and permutations of Build Tools 2017 container images are too great to publish official images, but here's how you can create your own tailored images.

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Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart
Jun 13, 2018

vswhere now supports -utf8 to override console code page

You can now force vswhere to output JSON using the UTF-8 encoding.

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Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart
Apr 18, 2018

Updated documentation for Visual Studio Build Tools container

The .NET Framework may not be correctly installed into a Windows Server Core container, and managed code - like the compilers - may fail. The documentation was updated with how to work around this.

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Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart
Jan 25, 2018

vswhere now supports -requiresAny to find instances with one or more components installed

You can now use -requiresAny with vswhere to specify that any component ID passed to -requires will satisfy the query.

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Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart
Nov 8, 2017

Set both x86 and x64 registry views for custom setup policy

Due to a bug in older versions of Visual Studio 2017, you should set the CachePath policy in both 32- and 64-bit views of the registry.

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