Jez Higgins

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Building VSTO Projects without Visual Studio - Frankly, this blows, since it wastes a VS license and also causes a VS instance to spin up on every build (which is very often when you’re doing CI with multiple projects hosted on the same build server). It just makes CI far messier and costly to set up and run, which is exactly the kind of friction I’d very much prefer to avoid. And when you think about it, it’s completely unnecessary. What is VSTO besides some combination of managed and unmanaged DLLs? Why on earth is VS required to build a VSTO project? Next you’ll tell me I need Office installed on the build server! Thankfully, it’s not required (except by the installer), and this post details how you can set up your build server to build VSTO projects without the overhead of VS. There may be simpler ways (by tricking the installer, for example), but this is how I achieved it.


Jez Higgins

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