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Configure Visual Studio across your organization with .vsconfig

Heath Stewart April 3, 2019 Apr 3, 2019 04/3/19

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

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

Heath Stewart December 10, 2018 Dec 10, 2018 12/10/18

If you try to install Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 into a Windows Server 2019 or newer container image, such as mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:1809 or mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:ltsc2019, the install will quickly terminate without error and without installing anything. This is due, in part, to changes to the Windows ...

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

Heath Stewart November 14, 2018 Nov 14, 2018 11/14/18

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 ...

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Configure Visual Studio across your organization with .vsconfig

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

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

vswhere now supports -utf8 to override console code page

Updated documentation for Visual Studio Build Tools container

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

Set both x86 and x64 registry views for custom setup policy

How to install Builds Tools in a Docker container

New vswhere: now with more properties!

Installing Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 in a Docker container

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