vsget

Collects portable MS Visual Studio Tools.

Currently only x64-x64 is available for host-target platforms.

vsget "[destination]"

Downloads and unpacks (without installation) to destination:

• MS Visual C++ v143 (~ 500 MB)

• MS Build v170 (~ 35 MB)

• Windows SDK v10.0.22621.755 (~ 2.4 GB)

Adds related vcvars*.bat to init the VS Tools environment.

Windows SDK

Windows SDK can be downloaded separately:

get-sdk "[url]" "[destination]"

Downloads the ISO, extracts the MSI installers (with related CAB files) of the SDK components and unpacks them into destination.

The actual SDK_URL can be found in vsget.bat.

Uncache MS Visual Studio Components

Use the MS Visual Studio cache to generate vsix-groups\*.txt files:

vsuncache "{CachePath}"

If the optional CachePath is ommited, tries to find the VS cache path in the Windows Registry.

Install Build Tools for Visual Studio

If you don't need exactly a portable version of VS Tools (for example, when you need to uncache VSIX components), you can use vsinstall to automatically install the minimal Visual C++ tools:

• Visual C++ Tools x64

• Windows SDK

Actual versions are set in URL, VC and SDK vars in vsinstall.bat: Build Tools for Visual Studio 2022 (v17); Windows 10 SDK v20348.