Visual Studio has a suite of tools to easily create Microsoft Azure cloud-enabled applications.

To learn more about setting up Visual Studio on your system, see Install Visual Studio. If you haven't already installed Visual Studio, go to the Visual Studio downloads page to install it for free. This modular strategy helps keep the Visual Studio installation footprint smaller, so it installs and updates faster. Workloads are groups of features that programming languages or platforms need to work. In Visual Studio's modular installer, you choose and install the workloads you want. For a basic introduction to Visual Studio, see the Visual Studio IDE overview. This article describes features for experienced developers, or developers who are already familiar with Visual Studio. I have had a look at ‘Visual Studio Installer’ but I feel completely out of my depth with it – I wouldn’t know where to start.Applies to: Visual Studio Visual Studio for Mac Visual Studio Code Does anyone have any experience using this package? So far, the easiest (and possibly cheapest) way of creating an MSI is to use a trial version of ‘Advanced Installer’ by Caphyon. The setup file seems to work OK (registering the components and installing the application) but I have been asked to make the installer MSI based, so that it can be installed via Active Directory. I used the ‘Package and Deployment Wizard’ to generate the list of dependencies above and a setup file (along with the associated CAB file and Setup.lst). I have an application that needs some of the VB6 runtime files (not surprisingly), and some other components (OCX/DLL etc).

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