Support WebInstallers

[spotlesscoder]

I can't find an ISO image of the VS2013 and VS2017 editions I need . There are only webinstallers.

The both the web installer EXE and manually packaged zip files containing all the resources should be settable as "source" attribute .

[taliesins]

#11 Allows the web install for vs2017.

I cache the vs2017 install by running something like (note the initial installer is in different path):

c:\temp\vs_community.exe --layout e:\vs2017offline --lang en-US --all

Then when installing point to:

e:\vs2017offline\vs_community.exe

You need to run the installer again to cache newer releases of vs2017 fortunately it only downloads what's missing for the new version so it should be quicker

[spotlesscoder]

I hope this will be merged in the near future :)

[spotlesscoder]

Any progress on this one?

[taliesins]

As there is no ISO installer for Visual Studio 2017, to make a fully repeatable build you should be getting visual studio builds from a network share.

Original when I tried this, I kept having interment failures when deploying to devs and it took ages (running this for devs at a datacenter company, so connectivity should not have been an issue)

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