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More detail at Security and Moderation.
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Downloads:
2,085
Downloads of v 16.10.0.20000-preview1:
8
Last Update:
17 Apr 2021
Package Maintainer(s):
Software Author(s):
- Microsoft
Tags:
microsoft visual studio visualstudio vs vs16 2019 community preview ide admin- Software Specific:
- Software Site
- Software License
- Software Docs
- Software Issues
- Package Specific:
- Package Source
- Package outdated?
- Package broken?
- Contact Maintainers
- Contact Site Admins
- Software Vendor?
- Report Abuse
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Visual Studio 2019 Community Preview
This is a prerelease version of Visual Studio 2019 Community Preview.
- Software Specific:
- Software Site
- Software License
- Software Docs
- Software Issues
- Package Specific:
- Package Source
- Package outdated?
- Package broken?
- Contact Maintainers
- Contact Site Admins
- Software Vendor?
- Report Abuse
- Download
Downloads:
2,085
Downloads of v 16.10.0.20000-preview1:
8
Maintainer(s):
Software Author(s):
- Microsoft
Edit Package
To edit the metadata for a package, please upload an updated version of the package.
Chocolatey's Community Package Repository currently does not allow updating package metadata on the website. This helps ensure that the package itself (and the source used to build the package) remains the one true source of package metadata.
This does require that you increment the package version.
Visual Studio 2019 Community Preview 16.10.0.20000-preview1
This is a prerelease version of Visual Studio 2019 Community Preview.
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To install Visual Studio 2019 Community Preview, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
To upgrade Visual Studio 2019 Community Preview, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
To uninstall Visual Studio 2019 Community Preview, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
NOTE: This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.
1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment
Please see the organizational deployment guide
2. Get the package into your environment-
Open Source or Commercial:
- Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
- You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download
-
Open Source
- Download the Package Download
- Follow manual internalization instructions
-
Package Internalizer (C4B)
- Run
choco download visualstudio2019community-preview --internalize --source=https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2
(additional options) - Run
choco push --source="'http://internal/odata/repo'"
for package and dependencies - Automate package internalization
- Run
3. Enter your internal repository url
(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2)
4. Choose your deployment method:
choco upgrade visualstudio2019community-preview -y --source="'STEP 3 URL'" [other options]
See options you can pass to upgrade.
See best practices for scripting.
Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.
If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:
choco upgrade visualstudio2019community-preview -y --source="'STEP 3 URL'"
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE
Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
Exit 0
}
Exit $exitCode
- name: Ensure visualstudio2019community-preview installed
win_chocolatey:
name: visualstudio2019community-preview
state: present
version: 16.10.0.20000-preview1
source: STEP 3 URL
See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.
chocolatey_package 'visualstudio2019community-preview' do
action :install
version '16.10.0.20000-preview1'
source 'STEP 3 URL'
end
See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.
Chocolatey::Ensure-Package
(
Name: visualstudio2019community-preview,
Version: 16.10.0.20000-preview1,
Source: STEP 3 URL
);
Requires Otter Chocolatey Extension. See docs at https://inedo.com/den/otter/chocolatey.
cChocoPackageInstaller visualstudio2019community-preview
{
Name = 'visualstudio2019community-preview'
Ensure = 'Present'
Version = '16.10.0.20000-preview1'
Source = 'STEP 3 URL'
}
Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.
package { 'visualstudio2019community-preview':
provider => 'chocolatey',
ensure => '16.10.0.20000-preview1',
source => 'STEP 3 URL',
}
Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.
salt '*' chocolatey.install visualstudio2019community-preview version="16.10.0.20000-preview1" source="STEP 3 URL"
See docs at https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/modules/all/salt.modules.chocolatey.html.
5. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation
See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.
Overview
Free, full-featured and extensible tool for students, open-source and individual developers.
Visual Studio Preview gives you early access to the latest features and improvements not yet available in the main release. By trying Preview, you can take advantage of new builds and updates that ship on a frequent cadence. For more information on Visual Studio Preview installs, visit the FAQ page. Visual Studio and Visual Studio Preview can be installed side-by-side on the same device.
This release is not "go-live" and not intended for use on production computers or for creating production code.
Please note that the preview version is continuously evolving and certain features may not work as expected. This version is also not licensed to build shipping applications.
To find out what's new or to see the known issues, see the Visual Studio 2019 Preview release notes.
System requirements
Customizations and Optional features
By default, the package installs only the bare minimum required (the Core Editor workload). The easiest way to add more development features is to use the workload packages listed in the Release Notes section.
All package parameters are passed to the Visual Studio installer, enabling full customization of the installation. The possible parameters are described here. The package passes --norestart --wait
by default, and --quiet
, unless --passive
is specified in the package parameters.
After installing the package, more features can also be added by launching the Visual Studio Installer application from the Start Menu.
The language of the installed software can be controlled using the package parameter --locale language
.
The list of languages is presented here. By default, the operating system display language is used.
Full installation
This command will install Visual Studio with all available workloads and optional components, display progress during the installation and specify the English language regardless of operating system settings:
choco install visualstudio2019community-preview --package-parameters "--allWorkloads --includeRecommended --includeOptional --passive --locale en-US"
More package parameter examples
Notes
A reboot may be required after (or even before) installing/uninstalling this package.
If control over reboots is required, it is advisable to install the dependencies (esp. dotnetfx 4.7.2 or later) first, perform a reboot if necessary, and then install this package.
Some parameters, including --allWorkloads
, --includeRecommended
and --includeOptional
, are only valid during the initial installation of Visual Studio and may cause failures if used during upgrade. For reliability, it is recommended to avoid using these parameters and install workloads using the workload packages listed in the Release Notes section.
Install-VisualStudio `
-PackageName 'visualstudio2019community-preview' `
-ApplicationName 'Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2019 Preview' `
-Url 'https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/c5bd7afb-fe10-47e1-b717-db27ee6a9265/c213949b1bd001888832da17070185106b518f322f7597e3058543948e3dc0ac/vs_Community.exe' <# https://aka.ms/vs/16/pre/vs_community.exe #> `
-Checksum 'C213949B1BD001888832DA17070185106B518F322F7597E3058543948E3DC0AC' `
-ChecksumType 'SHA256' `
-InstallerTechnology 'WillowVS2017OrLater' `
-Product 'Community' `
-VisualStudioYear '2019' `
-Preview $true
Remove-VisualStudioProduct `
-PackageName 'visualstudio2019community-preview' `
-Product 'Community' `
-VisualStudioYear '2019' `
-Preview $true
Log in or click on link to see number of positives.
- visualstudio2019community-preview.16.10.0.20000-preview1.nupkg (cb2d45a1c5c5) - ## / 61
- vs_Community.exe (c213949b1bd0) - ## / 69
In cases where actual malware is found, the packages are subject to removal. Software sometimes has false positives. Moderators do not necessarily validate the safety of the underlying software, only that a package retrieves software from the official distribution point and/or validate embedded software against official distribution point (where distribution rights allow redistribution).
Chocolatey Pro provides runtime protection from possible malware.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/permissions
Software
Visual Studio 2019 Preview release notes
Package
16.10.0.20000-preview1:
- Package metadata updated for Visual Studio 2019 version 16.10.0 Preview 2.0 (the native installer always installs the latest released Visual Studio 2019 build).
- Updated bootstrapper url.
- Added warning about parameters not valid during upgrade.
Available workload packages
-
- chocolatey-visualstudio.extension (≥ 1.9.0)
- KB3033929 (≥ 1.0.5)
- KB2919355 (≥ 1.0.20160915)
- KB2999226 (≥ 1.0.20161201)
- dotnetfx (≥ 4.7.2)
- visualstudio-installer (≥ 2.0.1)
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- This discussion is only about Visual Studio 2019 Community Preview and the Visual Studio 2019 Community Preview package. If you have feedback for Chocolatey, please contact the Google Group.
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