Virtual-environments: Update/Add Visual Studio and .NET Core SDK

Created on 11 Dec 2019 · 8Comments · Source: actions/virtual-environments

Tool information

Tool name: Visual Studio and .NET Core SDK
Add or update? Update
Desired version: Visual Studio 16.4.1 + .NET Core SDK 3.1.100
Approximate size:

Virtual environments affected

[ ] macOS 10.15
[ ] Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
[ ] Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
[ ] Windows Server 2016 R2
[x] Windows Server 2019

Can this tool be installed during the build?
Visual Studio cannot. The SDK can.

Are you willing to submit a PR?
If I knew how to update the virtual environment image, sure I'd be willing to do that...but I don't. If there are doc pointers I'll take a look.

Source

timheuer

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Most helpful comment

We pull the latest version of VS that's available when we create the virtual environment. We're in the process of rolling out an update with VS16.4.0. VS16.4.1 will be included in an update following that.

kaylangan on 12 Dec 2019

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kaylangan on 12 Dec 2019

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@kaylangan This is great! Is there a public area for roadmap/rollout details?

timheuer on 12 Dec 2019

Can this tool be installed during the build?
Visual Studio cannot. The SDK can.

Although .NET Core SDK can be installed individually, using msbuild to compile a .NET Core 3.1 project will fail, as older Visual Studio does not recognize or support some of the features in 3.1 projects. To correctly build a 3.1 project, it requires the VS 2019 16.4 to be installed.

jozefizso on 13 Dec 2019

@jozefizso for .NET Core projects, are you doing custom MSBuild items because you should be able to use dotnet build CLI command from the SDK to build Core projects.

timheuer on 13 Dec 2019

I use the VSBuild@1 task to compile solution.

PS: projects target .NET 4.0, 4.7 and Core 3.1 simultaneously

jozefizso on 13 Dec 2019

@jozefizso got it, so you don't really need it for core, but your solution has other bits that require it. Makes sense. If your .NET Framework projects are SDK-style projects than they can be built using dotnet as well but I suspect they are not and are classic csproj.

timheuer on 13 Dec 2019

FYI, I created https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/pull/164 which updates Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 to include .NET Core 3.1.