Visual Studio Setup
Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products
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Heath Stewart
How to install Builds Tools in a Docker container
Preview new documentation for how to install Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 into a Docker container.
Heath Stewart
New vswhere: now with more properties!
Read about all the new properties output by vswhere.
Heath Stewart
Installing Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 in a Docker container
Follow this guidance to install Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 into a Docker container and save the image for later.
Heath Stewart
Cleaning up corrupt Visual Studio instances
When older versions of Visual Studio 2017 report an error about not being able to load the instance, follow these instructions to clean up corrupt instances and re-install.
Heath Stewart
vswhere version 2.0 released
A new major version of vswhere is released with the breaking change to filter out preview releases by default.
Heath Stewart
Disabling or moving the Visual Studio 2017 package cache is now generally available
With the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.2, the ability to disable or move the package cache is now generally available and documented. Basically, ...
Heath Stewart
Documentation now live for moving or disabling the package cache
I previously wrote about moving or disabling the package cache for Visual Studio 2017, which is a feature in the latest preview of Visual Studio 2017 and will ...
Heath Stewart
vswhere is now installed with Visual Studio 2017
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 ...
Heath Stewart
Cleaning up the Visual Studio 2017 package cache
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 ...