about_VSSetup.help.txt
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about_vssetup SHORT DESCRIPTION Enumerate and select instances of Visual Studio. LONG DESCRIPTION Visual Studio 2017 introduced a new setup engine capable of installing multiple instances of Visual Studio and other products in the Visual Studio family. This module provides commands to enumerate those instances and select instances that meet your criteria. For example, in a development environment you might have a script that finds an instance of Visual Studio with the the Managed Desktop workload for writing projects targeting the .NET Framework. See below for more examples. VARIABLES You can get the version of this module or of the query API the module uses from the `$VSSetupVersionTable` variable. PS> $VSSetupVersionTable Name Value ---- ----- QueryVersion 1.15.23.19330 ModuleVersion 2.1.2.4917 EXAMPLES You can enumerate all instances - even those with errors that require a repair - with the following command. Get-VSSetupInstance -All If you want to select all launchable instances of Visual Studio products that have the Managed Desktop workload, use the following command. Get-VSSetupInstance | Get-VSSetupInstance ` -Require 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktop' You can also get the instance for an installation directory if you want to discover more about what is installed to that directory. Get-VSSetupInstance 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community' SEE ALSO https://github.com/Microsoft/vssetup.powershell |