Visual Studio 2017 Happiness

Question

Very, Very happy with the installer inside of Visual Studio 2017. One of my biggest headaches was dealing with old software(preview, older versions, duplicate x32/x64, .net, dotnet core, etc.) but now with the VS2017 I can now go into the installer and remove those old pieces of software without having to spend hours wondering if removing this or that will break Windows or my work. 

I have only one request now...can you add Azure applets(compute emulator, web apps tools, authoring tools) to this tool?

Also, can you prompt to install more current non-preview software? I noticed, for example, I had visual studio tools 2015 but I was never prompted to update it unless I uninstalled it. I then went in and removed all my SQL stuff so I could get the latest and the flood gate of installations came through.

Answer 1

Hi ResidentX10,

Thank you for posting in MSDN forum.

For your request, I help you submit the on the Uservoice, please see:

https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio-ide/suggestions/32670853-add-azure-applets

 >>can you prompt to install more current non-preview software?

You could refer to Update Visual Studio 2017 to the most recent release , it explains the two ways of updating VS, which update the VS related SDK, components and workload.

Best Regards,

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Answer 2

Thanks