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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Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products
Add a .vsconfig file to your solution root directory to configure Visual Studio consistently across your organization.
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,
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,
You can now force vswhere to output JSON using the UTF-8 encoding.
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.
You can now use -requiresAny with vswhere to specify that any component ID passed to -requires will satisfy the query.
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.
Preview new documentation for how to install Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 into a Docker container.
Read about all the new properties output by vswhere.
Follow this guidance to install Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 into a Docker container and save the image for later.