Visual Studio Setup

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

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

Heath Stewart

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 ...