Visual Studio for Mac At Build 2017, Microsoft announced general availability for the Mac version of Visual Studio. It’s available to download now, and the company promises some big features that may have you switching IDEs. It’s not the first time we’ve talked Visual Studio for Mac. Back in, Microsoft released it as a beta for eager developers. Now that it’s worked out the bugs, the company is releasing the first GA (general availability) candidate. Supporting C#, F#,.NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Xamarin and Unity, Visual Studio for Mac is a native application. It also leans heavily into Azure, on which Microsoft is hanging its hat at this year’s Build conference.

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Microsoft announces Visual Studio 2017 RC and Visual Studio for Mac November 16, 2016 - 11:30 AM Windows Central - Dan Thorp During its Connect developer conference, Microsoft took to the stage to officially announce both the Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate and Visual Studio for Mac.

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“Visual Studio for Mac brings the integrated development environment (IDE) loved by millions to the Mac,” said Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President of Cloud and Enterprise. “Developers get a great IDE and a single environment to not only work on end-to-end solutions – from mobile and web apps to games – but also to integrate with and deploy to Azure.” Visual Studio will allow Mac-centric developers to build, deploy and debug in Azure, which Microsoft hopes will encourage more cross-platform development. It also shares code with the Windows version via Azure, which should help with collaboration. For Windows users, Visual Studio 2017 version 15.2 is likewise available.

It returns to Visual Studio, and resurfaces the workload that encompasses R, and F#. Version 15.3 is also in beta, adding accessibility features and a.NET Core2.0 preview. It has Live Unit Testing for.NET Core projects, C standard conformance, enhancement in continuous delivery for ASP.NET, and ASP.NET Core projects targeting Azure App Services and improvements in container development.

Developing Windows software on a Mac, seems so oxymoron. — Bryan Rahn (@BryanRahn) The downside? This all leads back to Microsoft. Mac-based devs still can’t natively code in Swift or via Visual Studio, nor can they access Apple’s various kits.

That’s not entirely Microsoft’s fault, but highlights some disparity in its “cloud first, mobile first” thinking. But as-is, Microsoft’s IDE does feel like a refresh of Xcode. It’s brighter, with a bit more whitespace, and loses a bit of the functionality Apple has held onto with its IDE (which also bogs it down). Visually stunning, Visual Studio is unabashedly meant for Azure applications, where Microsoft is making deep investments. If you’re curious about the software’s capabilities, you can download Visual Studio for Mac. Where does this estimate come from? Dice predicts salary ranges based on the job title, location, and skills listed in individual job descriptions.

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OVERVIEW The following two components fail to download when installing Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 on an offline computer. Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Compilers.Resources. Microsoft.VisualStudio.WebToolsExtensions.MSBuild.Resources DETAILS My team all have Visual Studio Professional licenses. We are attempting to set up a build server at that can automatically build the software we create using a system called Jenkins, which we recently got approved. To be able to build our software properly, Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 must be installed on the server. We can download the installer for the Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017, but this is an web-only installer.

The server we need to install the build tools on has restricted internet access. I have dug and dug all over the internet, found official documentation and various forums and guides as shown below. I even reached out to Microsoft Technical support via chat (who just found those same links, then exited the chat), found Microsoft’s troubleshooting steps for the Visual Studio installer, and used it to generate the attached installation logs. REPRO STEPS On our local workstation with internet access. Download Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 (e.g. Vsbuildtools.exe) to local workstation into its own folder.

Open command prompt in folder where vsbuildtools has been downloaded, and run the following command. Vsbuildtools.exe -layout.add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktopBuildTools -add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.MSBuildTools -add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NetCoreBuildTools -add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.UniversalBuildTools -add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.WebBuildTools -add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.OfficeBuildTools -add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VCTools -lang en-US.

Copy the folder where the layouts were generated to the build server where you want to install it. On the build server with no internet access.

Run mmc as admin. If the Certificates (Local Computer) snap-in is not loaded already, add it, so it always manages for the Computer account.

Import all certificates from LAYOUTDIR certificates to 'Trusted Root Certification Authorities' of computer (not current user). Open a CMD prompt as an administrator and change directories to the folder where the “layout” (offline installation files) were copied. Run LAYOUTDIR vssetup.exe –noweb. Continue clicking Next until the build tools installation is complete.

The Visual Studio Build Tools installation fails using the offline installer when I selected the desired components on the left, or even the minimal tools on the right. I found the article about gathering the Visual Studio logs, and have attached the results. Hi Sara, For some reason, the link you tried to send ('this doc') doesn't appear to be clickable, the target URL seems to be blank after inspecting the source of this page. If I try the exact same command I used when generating the files (shown below), I get the error message below.

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The same thing happens if I add the -noweb parameter to the call to vsbuildtools.exe. Vsbuildtools.exe -layout. Hi jereba03, sorry for my mistake, please check this link: and use the command similar like the following to run the installation:. Vsbuildtools.exe -add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktopBuildTools -add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.MSBuildTools -add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NetCoreBuildTools -add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.UniversalBuildTools -add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.WebBuildTools -add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.OfficeBuildTools -add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VCTools. Hi Sara, I tried running that exact command, but get the same error shown in my previous screenshot.

It seems that omitting the -noWeb parameter when running either vsbuildtools.exe or vssetup.exe causes Visual Studio to look online for the packages instead of locally, perhaps as expected. Using that same command you recommended except adding -noWeb to the end of the command-line parameters causes the same two errors I initially reported about Couldn't download Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Compilers.Resources and Couldn't download Microsoft.VisualStudio.Net.Eula.Resources. Please advise on next steps. Have you analyzed the collect.exe logs I attached? Hi jereba03, could you please share the CMD screenshot that you used to run the command? Refer to this doc: and we do not need the parameter -noweb. BTW, I found you used '.'

I wanted to mention one additional observation. When I launch vsbuildtools.exe on the build server without internet access, using the exact command you requested (and leaving out -noWeb as you recommended), the following items are automatically selected by default in the Workloads tab. Visual C build tools.NET desktop build tools. Universal Windows Platform build tools. Web development build tools. Office/SharePoint build tools.NET Core build tools Perhaps it is noteworthy that there is no workload in the UI for MSBuild tools, even though I have used the -add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.MSBuildTools parameter when building the offline installer.

Selecting the Individual components tab of the Visual Studio Build Tools 2017 installer, this selects the following components. Hi Jesse, There is a reply further up that is hidden by default. Here is what it took for this to work for me: I just revisited the process I used to install the certs, and completed the process again based on the certification page you linked to, using the following process. Install Windows SDK on my local workstation. Copy certmgr.exe from C: Program Files (x86) Windows Kits 10 bin 10.0.16299.0 x64 to the layout root.

Save the following snippet as certinstaller.bat in the layout root. Ah, thanks, yeah I saw nothing on the page. I followed the same steps you did, including installing the certs from the./certificates folder into the Trusted Root Certification Authorities store and all that. Mine was slightly different in that I was only creating an offline layout for the Build Tools, not the whole VS 2017 (the two look identical in the installer, though, with most of the same ). I wrote a script to generate the layout to include every stinking component offered on that page, including recommended and optional parts. After following your steps and many others offered online, I came to the embarrassing conclusion that the VS 2017 Build Tools are simply no longer supported on Server 2008 R2.

This is confirmed on the. So, we're just going provision a new server with an OS that's not a rotting corpse and hope for the best.