Support for Visual Studio Build Tools?

[likemike91]

Is it planned to support the Visual Studio Build Tools as well?
This would allow us to automatically keep our Build Servers (with only Build Tools installed) updated when running vs update via a Scheduled Task.

[kzu]

Very good question. Could you point us to some info on how automated installation of that SKU can be done?

Thanks!

[likemike91]

I would say some information could be derived from the Chocolatey package which allows installation of the Visual Studio Build Tools as well:
https://github.com/jberezanski/ChocolateyPackages/tree/master/visualstudio2019buildtools

Respectively the VS Installation Module which provides helpers for that task:
https://github.com/jberezanski/ChocolateyPackages/tree/master/chocolatey-visualstudio.extension/extensions

[kzu]

ok, found what I was looking for:

https://github.com/jberezanski/ChocolateyPackages/blob/master/visualstudio2019buildtools/tools/ChocolateyInstall.ps1#L4

https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vs_buildtools.exe

Installing it seems like it would be relatively easy to do (maybe vs install build?). But investigating how to do the updating seems more involved.

If you could come up with a PR, I'd be glad to review and merge it.

Thanks!

[likemike91]

@kzu I created a PR for it. Please let me know if something else needs to be changed. ;)