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Dec 10, 2018
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Older versions of Visual Studio 2017 will not install in Windows Server 2019 containers

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

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 without error and without installing anything. This is due, in part, to changes to the Windows Server container image to reduce size and improve startup performance. To install into Window...

InstallationVisual StudioVS2017
Nov 14, 2018
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Workaround for 0x8007007e when trying to to locate an instance of Visual Studio

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

We are investigating how a particular rare problem occurs that can prevent clients like VSIXInstaller.exe, vswhere.exe, and others from finding any Visual Studio instance that results in an error similar to the following: This is the CLSID for the Visual Studio Installer query API, and despite being registered the COM server DLL is missing. ...

InstallationVisual StudioVS2017
Apr 18, 2018
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Updated documentation for Visual Studio Build Tools container

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

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.

InstallationVisual StudioVS2017
Oct 24, 2017
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How to install Builds Tools in a Docker container

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

Preview new documentation for how to install Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 into a Docker container.

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Oct 12, 2017
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New vswhere: now with more properties!

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

Read about all the new properties output by vswhere.

InstallationVisual StudioVS2017