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Visual Studio 2017 Build Tools refers to tools designed to help and automate the process of compiling, packaging and deploying software in the 2017 version of Microsoft's Visual Studio. Use this tag for questions related to this type of tools.

Visual Studio 2017 Build Tools refers to tools designed to help and automate the process of compiling, packaging and deploying software in the 2017 version of Microsoft's Visual Studio. Use this tag for questions related to this type of tools.

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VS 15.8.2 broke build tools - missing RuntimeIdentifier

The last windows update has broken our whole build chain and I am a little at a loss at what causes it. I have a legacy project that is a VS 2017 solution with a significant number of projects (winform, couple web based, some Webapi only). Locally…
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Fody is only supported on MSBuild 16 and above. Current version: 15

Visual Studio 2017 let me know there was an upgrade to Fody version 5 this morning. I accepted and did a NuGet package update of both Fody and PropertyChanged.Fody. Now, my project/solution will no longer build. The error is: "Fody is only…
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Are Visual Studio 2017 Build Tools still available for download?

I am looking for the Visual Studio 2017 Build Tools. Are they still available somewhere? I can find the 2015 and 2019 versions. The 2017 version seems impossible to find. Due to toolchain limitations, I unfortunately cannot use the 2019 version to…
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exclude certain projects from using Directory.Build.props

i have a new visual studio solution that has around 350 projects. it takes visual studio a lot of time to compile the .sln file so i implemented Directory.Build.props to avoid copying of references that are not needed to copy to the local directory…
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Offline Build tools for visual studio 2019

I am trying to download Build Tools for Visual Studio 2019 from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/ But when I click on download button, system downloads an exe which tries to connect to internet to download rest of the package. How can I…
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Get the correct $(VisualStudioVersion) for VS 2017 inside a MSBuild file

I have a MSBuild file to publish a solution (created in VS 2013 and ported to VS 2017) to a remote server. The offending line is this one:
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Microsoft.CSharp.Core.targets missing

I am building a webservice project on a TFS2017 Update 3 with build tools 2017. I get the following error C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\Microsoft.CSharp.CurrentVersion.targets(322,5): Error…
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PyOpenGL :: OpenGL.error.NullFunctionError: Attempt to call an undefined function glutInit, check for bool(glutInit) before calling

I'm following this very easy guide in order to make my first steps into PyOpenGL. I installed pip install PyOpenGL PyOpenGL_accelerate , all good. I tested the installation through the test code: import OpenGL.GL import OpenGL.GLUT import…
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Why does the Visual Studio Build Tools installer return immediately without installing anything?

I'm trying to follow the example for installing Visual Studio Build Tools in a container. I'm trying to figure out why the installation isn't working like I expect. I cannot even start the container that is "built" with the components I think I…
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Issue while installing Postal (Address Parser ) package of python

I am trying to install postal package using pip install postal I am following the steps mentioned in link https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal#installation-windows I have installed Visual Studio 2019 C++ Build Tools, MSYS2 and performed the…
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Rust on Windows CMake issue

I've installed Rust with rustup-init.exe on my PC (Windows 10 Pro) and then Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools 2017 with Visual C++ tools for CMake option. For simple example there is no problems: fn main() { println!("Hello world!"); } I execute…
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The project file could not be loaded. Root element is missing

I am trying to build a dotnet 3.5 project solution file with VS Build tools 2017 in Jenkins. The project is compiling well with DotNet 3.5's MSBuild, but when I try the same activity with MSBuild Engine Version 15.9.21+g9802d43bc3, it is throwing…
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Visual Studio 2017 offline install

At my company, we are using Visual Studio 2017 Professional for much of our development. We are now setting up a build server, and then we want to install Visual Studio build tools. We have done this successfully before, but now our build server…
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Will uninstalling Visual Studio Build Tools 2017 after installing the 2019 version?

I have Visual Studio build Tools 2017 installed on my PC. Is it OK to uninstall Visual Studio Build Tools 2017 after installing the 2019 version? Is there software that cannot be built by 2019 version and instead requires 2017 to be built? I am…
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How to enable Just In Time Debugger in Visual Studio 2017?

I haven't Just-In-Time in Options: I found to solve this with options of Internet : But when I'm rebuilding solution I get this exception: How to solve this issue?
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