Installing Custom Extensions

Question

Hi,

We are currently working on installing Visual Studio 2022 via command line. Wanted to know whether is there a way to install custom extensions during Visual Studio setup itself, and if not, do you recommend a way to administratively install extensions right after VS setup (Also, given that installation requires a reboot, and prevents VSIXInstaller.exe from working right after)?

Answer 1

Hi @Tanmay ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

You need to install Visual Studio firstly and then install the extension separately. If you’d like to install Visual Studio extensions by using command line, you need to use VSIXInstaller.exe and some command line tools.

Since VSIXInstaller.exe is necessary, if rebooting prevents it from working, you need to reuse the VSIXInstaller.exe with corresponding command line to finish installing Visual Studio extension.

Perhaps you need to consider how to let the command line tool starts automatically after rebooting and then run the command line automatically.

Best Regards,
Tianyu

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