April 2017 | Visual Studio Setup

vswhere is now installed with Visual Studio 2017

Heath StewartApril 21, 2017Apr 21, 201704/21/17

Starting in the latest preview release of Visual Studio version 15.2 (26418.1-Preview), you can now find vswhere installed in “%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer” (on 32-bit operating systems before Windows 10, you should use “%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer”).
While I initially made vswhere.exe available via NuGet and Chocolatey for easy acquisition,

Cleaning up the Visual Studio 2017 package cache

Heath StewartApril 19, 2017Apr 19, 201704/19/17

With the ability to disable or move the package cache for Visual Studio 2017 and other products installed with the new installer, packages are removed for whatever instance(s) you are installing, modifying, or repairing.
If you have a lot of instances and want to clean all of them up easily from the command line –

Moving or disabling the package cache for Visual Studio 2017

Heath StewartApril 17, 2017Apr 17, 201704/17/17

In the latest preview release of Visual Studio we are introducing the ability to disable (or re-enable) the package cache, or move it to another drive. This can be done using the command line or the registry, which can be deployed on a domain using group policy.