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 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 ...