Visual Studio Community 2015

[BassTech]

Has anyone installed Visual Studio Community 2015 on their network? Our ICT teacher has asked for it to be installed in classrooms, but the .exe for it is just a web installer and the size of the 'basic' install is 7gb, the full install is 35gb.

 

We are an RM CC4 network, and I'm struggling to get this onto the network, just wondering if anyone here has managed it, if so any pointers would be greatly appreciated

[PeterH]

Yes we've had a go at this. The following page tells you how to create and run an unattended installation of Visual Studio:

 

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee225237.aspx

 

Basically, you download the web installer exe and then run it with the /layout switch to create an administrative installation point containing all the files it needs to install. Then you have to play around and create a deployment XML file which you can configure to include the components you need.

 

Biggest problem is it's a huge installation package that takes ages to install.

[BassTech]

Thanks for the link, will give it a try

My main concern is the size of it as well, I don't know if the RM Management Console will handle a SW package that big - I have my doubts haha

[zag]

I set this up on a virtual image and distributed that around the school via network shares.

 

Works quite well especially as I don't have to turn off executible blocking on FSRM.

 

Visual Studio has always been a beast and is not really designed for educational environments. Languages like Java and Python have much smaller programming IDE's and are better suited to education in my opinion. Especially the way the industry is going.

Edited June 14, 2016 by zag

[just_david]

I set this up on a virtual image and distributed that around the school via network shares.

 

Works quite well especially as I don't have to turn off executible blocking on FSRM.

 

Visual Studio has always been a beast and is not really designed for educational environments. Languages like Java and Python have much smaller programming IDE's and are better suited to education in my opinion. Especially the way the industry is going.

 

have you managed to do that with all the xamarin options installed?

 

our head of ICT&Business wants Visual Studio Plus Xamarin and its bouncing off being a 40gb install.

 

Where we've needed solidworks and maya in the past we've baked the install into a OS deployment, but I don't fancy deploying a 60gb image. Not sure of a more reliable/workable option at the moment though.

we use specops to deploy our software.