Is it possible to install Visual Studio in a Windows Container

Question

Is it possible to install any version of Visual Studio in a Windows Container on a Windows Server?

The motivation is to use Windows Containers for building software

Answer 1

A way to install visual build chain in a windows container could be to use chocolatey package visualstudio2017buildtools.

Starting Dockerfile with something like :

FROM microsoft/windowsservercore
RUN powershell.exe -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SETX PATH "%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin" 
RUN choco install -y  visualstudio2017buildtools --package-parameters "--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VCTools --installPath C:\BuildTools" || IF "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="3010" EXIT 0      
RUN call "C:\BuildTools\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat"