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Downloads:

246,556

Downloads of v 2.9.1-g4df5b7a8ce:

120

Last Update:

15 Sep 2021

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Microsoft

Tags:

vs vs2017 visualstudio

Visual Studio Locator

This is a prerelease version of Visual Studio Locator.

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2.9.1-g4df5b7a8ce | Updated: 15 Sep 2021

Downloads:

246,556

Downloads of v 2.9.1-g4df5b7a8ce:

120

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Microsoft

Visual Studio Locator 2.9.1-g4df5b7a8ce

This is a prerelease version of Visual Studio Locator.

Legal Disclaimer: Neither this package nor Chocolatey Software, Inc. are affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft. The inclusion of Microsoft trademark(s), if any, upon this webpage is solely to identify Microsoft goods or services and not for commercial purposes.

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All Checks are Passing

3 Passing Tests


Validation Testing Passed


Verification Testing Passed

Details

Scan Testing Successful:

No detections found in any package files

Details
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Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall

To install Visual Studio Locator, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To upgrade Visual Studio Locator, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To uninstall Visual Studio Locator, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

Deployment Method:

NOTE

This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.

1. Enter Your Internal Repository Url

(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/)


2. Setup Your Environment

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

3. Copy Your Script

choco upgrade vswhere -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" --version="'2.9.1-g4df5b7a8ce'" --prerelease [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 vswhere -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" --version="'2.9.1-g4df5b7a8ce'" --prerelease
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE

Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
  Exit 0
}

Exit $exitCode

- name: Install vswhere
  win_chocolatey:
    name: vswhere
    version: '2.9.1-g4df5b7a8ce'
    source: INTERNAL REPO URL
    state: present
    allow_prerelease: yes

See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.


chocolatey_package 'vswhere' do
  action    :install
  source   'INTERNAL REPO URL'
  version  '2.9.1-g4df5b7a8ce'
  options  '--prerelease'
end

See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.


cChocoPackageInstaller vswhere
{
    Name        = "vswhere"
    Version     = "2.9.1-g4df5b7a8ce"
    Source      = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
    chocoParams = "--prerelease"
}

Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.


package { 'vswhere':
  ensure          => '2.9.1-g4df5b7a8ce',
  install_options => ['--prerelease'],
  provider        => 'chocolatey',
  source          => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}

Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.


4. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation

See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.

Package Approved

This package was approved as a trusted package on 15 Sep 2021.

Description

Locate Visual Studio 2017 and newer installations


tools\LICENSE.txt
The MIT License (MIT) 
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
tools\VERIFICATION.txt
VERIFICATION
Verification is intended to assist the Chocolatey moderators and community
in verifying that this package's contents are trustworthy.

tools\vswhere.exe is produced by us from the same repository as this package: https://github.com/Microsoft/vswhere
tools\vswhere.exe
md5: 9EE095678F52B9FD279548A5BAD676C9 | sha1: D450B5D8A31686F7E3F4C0985F729D27F8E73E8F | sha256: A77136BBF9F10DAF8EF5B5A0216ABC2DA9F3F9FFF92E16736843D3A8383E55BF | sha512: 560461589DEC8DCA997636EF969854BC38F5E90248EBFF157AD774B33F7002EBF0603C8386EBD3BFA63DDD7BA9385C045456E4330B868D00629F996E62DD90B3
build\vswhere.props
 

Log in or click on link to see number of positives.

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.

Add to Builder Version Downloads Last Updated Status
Visual Studio Locator 3.1.4 10920 Monday, April 24, 2023 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 3.1.1 21959 Tuesday, November 15, 2022 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 3.0.3 18095 Thursday, June 2, 2022 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 3.0.2 4405 Friday, April 29, 2022 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 3.0.1 5350 Tuesday, March 1, 2022 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.9.3-g21bcdb639c 423 Friday, September 17, 2021 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.9.1-g4df5b7a8ce 120 Wednesday, September 15, 2021 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.8.4 77168 Monday, October 28, 2019 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.8.3-gded0fdd044 232 Thursday, October 24, 2019 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.8.2-g417060f504 310 Saturday, September 21, 2019 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.7.1 7892 Friday, July 26, 2019 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.7.1-g180c706d56 228 Friday, July 26, 2019 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.6.13-ga6d40ba5f4 257 Friday, June 28, 2019 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.6.10-gb60cc3196e 351 Wednesday, April 3, 2019 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.6.7 4874 Wednesday, January 30, 2019 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.6.6-gd9dbe79db3 257 Monday, January 28, 2019 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.6.3-g7446fa5c48 251 Thursday, January 24, 2019 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.6.2-gf078b21784 257 Wednesday, January 23, 2019 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.5.11-g0d92cf1f7a 293 Wednesday, January 23, 2019 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.5.10-gc021cdba3c 284 Friday, January 18, 2019 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.5.9 1319 Wednesday, January 2, 2019 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.5.2 3590 Wednesday, June 13, 2018 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.4.1 1376 Tuesday, March 27, 2018 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.3.7 1598 Thursday, March 8, 2018 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.3.2 1155 Tuesday, January 23, 2018 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.2.11 1607 Tuesday, October 31, 2017 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.2.7 1020 Thursday, October 12, 2017 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.2.3 693 Saturday, October 7, 2017 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.1.4 2039 Wednesday, September 6, 2017 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.1.3 3453 Saturday, July 29, 2017 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.0.2 1295 Saturday, June 24, 2017 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 1.0.71 603 Tuesday, June 13, 2017 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 1.0.62 990 Wednesday, April 12, 2017 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 1.0.58 688 Wednesday, March 15, 2017 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 1.0.55 498 Wednesday, March 15, 2017 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 1.0.50 1117 Friday, March 10, 2017 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 1.0.47 456 Wednesday, March 8, 2017 Approved
Visual Studio Locator 1.0.40 509 Saturday, March 4, 2017 Approved

This package has no dependencies.

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