VisualStudio Cookbook

This Chef cookbook installs Visual Studio and related products.

Requirements

This cookbook requires 7-zip to be installed so it can extract the ISO. To ensure this happens this cookbook includes the seven_zip default recipe.

For Windows7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 SP1 you must first install KB2664825, otherwise the VS installer will reboot in the middle of the installation. To avoid this it is recommended that you first install SQL CE 4. You can install SQL CE 4 via Chef using the sqlce cookbook.

Platforms

Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 Windows 8 Windows Server 2012

Using the 2008 and 2010 recipes on other versions of Windows may require generating a new unattended .ini file. See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee225237(v=vs.100).aspx

Usage

Obtain the ISOs for the versions of Visual Studio you want to install, and set node['visualstudio']['source'] as explained below.

Attributes

Required

• node['visualstudio']['source'] - Path to folder that contains the Visual Studio ISOs. Can be a local path or a URL.

Optional

• node['visualstudio']['log_dir'] - The directory to put installer log files. Default: `C:\logs\visualstudio

• node['visualstudio']['9.0']['edition']

• node['visualstudio']['10.0']['edition']

• node['visualstudio']['11.0']['edition']

• node['visualstudio']['12.0']['edition'] - The editions of Visual Studio to install. Currently only 2008 Professional, 2010 Premium, 2012 Premium, and 2013 Premium are supported.

Recipes

install_vs120

Installs Visual Studio 12.0 (2013)

install_vs110

Installs Visual Studio 11.0 (2012)

install_vs100

Installs Visual Studio 10.0 (2010)

install_vs100sp1

Installs Visual Studio 10.0 Service Pack 1

install_vs90

Installs Visual Studio 9.0 (2008)

install_vs90sp1

Installs Visual Studio 9.0 Service Pack 1

install_tfpt

Installs TFS 2010 Power Tools

Author

Original author: Shawn Neal (sneal@daptiv.com)

Extended for Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 by: Justin R. Stout (justinrstout@justinrstout.com)