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Sep 1, 2017
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Cleaning up corrupt Visual Studio instances

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

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.

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Mar 11, 2017
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vswhere now searches older versions of Visual Studio

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

One of the top requests I kept hearing for vswhere was to also search older versions of Visual Studio. You can now do that starting with the latest release. Even if you don't have Visual Studio 2017 or newer installed - which means the query API is not even registered - you can use vswhere to find the installation root directory for Visual Studi...

Visual StudioVS2017VS2012
Jan 25, 2017
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Visual Studio Setup PowerShell Module Available

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

To make the new setup configuration APIs more accessible to developers, we have published the "VSSetup" PowerShell module on powershellgallery.com, making it quick and easy to install. If you have Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 or newer - installed with Windows 10 - or PowerShellGet for PowerShell 3.0 or 4.0, you can run the following from...

Visual StudioDevelopmentVS2017
Jan 25, 2017
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Documentation available for the Setup Configuration API

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

Visual Studio 2017 has brought big changes to extensibility that allow developers to install extensions to different instances and install dependencies. In support of multiple instances, a fast API was required that tools can use to find and launch Visual Studio and related tools, or to install extensions. I previously published some samples, and ...

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Sep 15, 2016
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Changes to Visual Studio “15” Setup

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

We've listened to feedback over the years, and while each new release brought changes to the setup experience of Visual Studio and related products, none have been more significant than what we're doing for Visual Studio "15". New setup engine With Visual Studio supporting so many platforms and toolkits, one of the goals for Visual Studio "15" is t...

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