That is not only a pity but also causes a bug if you install yourself the Windows 7.0 SDK that contains the. While the Visual Studio 2017 Community installer provides the optional individual component “.NET Framework 3.5 developments tools”, the installer of Build Tools 2017 doesn’t. Since that version is not installed by default on modern versions of the Windows OS, I need to install it going to “Control Panel”, “Programs and Features” item, “Turn Windows Features on or off” link: NET Framework 2.0 for some projects (I still support Visual Studio 2005).

NET Framework 4.6.1 support Windows SDKs, ATL support, etc.: There are also optional individual components to install. An optional workload “Web development build tools”.An optional workload “Visual C++ build tools”.A built-in (non-optional) set of components to build MSBuild-based projects (for example managed projects).Once you install them on a clean machine, you will notice that they provide only the following: The Visual 2017 Build Tools can be downloaded from here. Incidentally my MZ-Tools solution has both type of projects. They can be used to build either managed (C#, VB.NET, etc.) projects or native (C++) projects. They are a lightweight version of Visual Studio 2017 without the IDE (devenv.exe executable). As part of that process, I realized than rather than installing Visual Studio 2017 Community edition on the server, I could use the Visual Studio 2017 Build Tools that were thought, well, for build servers that don’t need the overhead of a Visual Studio 2017 installation. As I explained in the post Migrating the build of a VSIX project to a build server if you are a solo developer, I am taking the steps to build my MZ-Tools extension on a build/release server.

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