Build Tools 2017 Guide

1. Overview Build Tools 2017 refers to Microsoft Build Tools 2017 (officially Visual Studio Build Tools 2017 ), a standalone suite that provides compilers, linkers, libraries, and build engines (MSBuild) without the full Visual Studio IDE. It was released alongside Visual Studio 2017 (version 15.0) in March 2017.

# Find MSBuild "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\MSBuild.exe" -version "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vswhere.exe" -products * -requires Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VCTools build tools 2017