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Use winget to install or modify Visual Studio

Open MisterDA opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments

Have a look at Use winget to install or modify Visual Studio:

You can use the Windows Package Manager "winget" tool to programmatically install, modify, or update Visual Studio on your machine along with other packages managed by winget.

MisterDA avatar Jul 17 '24 13:07 MisterDA

I have used this before (see https://github.com/tarides/infrastructure/blob/791e0f8bb6ff5c8dd9e3f54122edcaa158087ec5/hopi.caelum.ci.dev/windows-desktops/roles/visual-studio/tasks/main.yml#L3) however, I found Chocolatey to be more reliable when running under Ansible.

I noticed that we jump through a lot of hoops to install WinGet on Windows Server Core, where it isn't actually supported. Then, we only use it to install Git. I wondered if we could actually dispense with WinGet altogether and just use the Git installer.

mtelvers avatar Jul 17 '24 13:07 mtelvers

The idea was to use WinGet to install other things in the future, and to make sure we have one default package manager for Windows things. I'm not surprised that another package manager would be more reliable.

MisterDA avatar Jul 17 '24 14:07 MisterDA

IIRC I needed to build WinGet to disable its telemetry, but it can now be disabled via its settings.

MisterDA avatar Sep 17 '25 15:09 MisterDA