Visual Studio Setup

Visual Studio Setup

Visual Studio Setup

Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products

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

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

Heath Stewart

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 ...

vswhere now supports -utf8 to override console code page

June 13, 2018 Jun 13, 2018 06/13/18

Heath Stewart

You can now force vswhere to output JSON using the UTF-8 encoding.

New vswhere: now with more properties!

October 12, 2017 Oct 12, 2017 10/12/17

Heath Stewart

Read about all the new properties output by vswhere.

vswhere version 2.0 released

June 24, 2017 Jun 24, 2017 06/24/17

Heath Stewart

A new major version of vswhere is released with the breaking change to filter out preview releases by default.

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