BinPosh.VSSetup

A collection of scripts and modules to assist in tasks related to Visual Studio and MSBuild Tools.

BinPosh.GVSID | Get-VSInstallDir

Leverage the Microsoft module 'VSSetup' to get the path of the latest-versioned MSBuild Tools or Visual Studio instance.

• -Prerelease: include prereleases in the list of discovered instances.
• -Filter: Filter the discovered instances for specified Workloads, ComponentGroups, Components.

BinPosh.EVSDE | Enter-VSDevEnv

Imports an instance's DevShell module (Microsoft.VisualStudio.DevShell.dll). Then, loads into the developer environment.

• -VSInstallDir: the root directory of an instance i.e. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community or C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Preview. If VSInstallDir is not supplied, invokes Get-VSInstallDir with default parameters.