15,870

Downloads

2,053

Downloads of v 2.5.2

6/13/2018

Last update

Visual Studio Locator

2.5.2

This package was approved as a trusted package on 7/26/2018.

Locate Visual Studio 2017 and newer installations

To install Visual Studio Locator, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

C:\> choco install vswhere

To upgrade Visual Studio Locator, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

C:\> choco upgrade vswhere

Files

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The MIT License (MIT) 
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

tools\VERIFICATION.txt Show

VERIFICATION
Verification is intended to assist the Chocolatey moderators and community
in verifying that this package's contents are trustworthy.

tools\vswhere.exe is produced by us from the same repository as this package: https://github.com/Microsoft/vswhere

tools\vswhere.exe Show

md5: 148945F939336674D44C841788C6ED8E | sha1: 0D64C021DE9854AA085241062BFCAB676519F8D5 | sha256: FC0DCBE3981EF3ABAF1D3A13F0B79406BA3C19C70647C380A8E7D573D147FF98 | sha512: 6A18981FC7386A2BEA2C71281D8EAD92171DECE30BF6CC145E31446F27CB28C9AACAEE18D8D5651C3C31DF9C1F1DEB82A97851EA446C8065F6AA0D2FF1CD647E

Virus Scan Results

vswhere.2.5.2.nupkg (82f2c8e19738) - ## / 61 - Log in or click on link to see number of positives
vswhere.exe (fc0dcbe3981e) - ## / 68 - Log in or click on link to see number of positives

In cases where actual malware is found, the packages are subject to removal. Software sometimes has false positives. Moderators do not necessarily validate the safety of the underlying software, only that a package retrieves software from the official distribution point and/or validate embedded software against official distribution point (where distribution rights allow redistribution).

Chocolatey Pro provides runtime protection from possible malware.

Dependencies

This package has no dependencies.

Package Maintainer(s)

VisualStudioSetup

Software Author(s)

Microsoft

Copyright

Release Notes

https://github.com/Microsoft/vswhere/releases/tag/2.5.2

Version History

Version	Downloads	Last updated	Status
Visual Studio Locator 2.5.2	2053	Wednesday, June 13, 2018	approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.4.1	1077	Tuesday, March 27, 2018	approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.3.7	622	Thursday, March 8, 2018	approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.3.2	816	Tuesday, January 23, 2018	approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.2.11	1338	Tuesday, October 31, 2017	approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.2.7	733	Thursday, October 12, 2017	approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.2.3	410	Saturday, October 7, 2017	approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.1.4	1760	Wednesday, September 6, 2017	approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.1.3	3211	Saturday, July 29, 2017	approved
Visual Studio Locator 2.0.2	979	Saturday, June 24, 2017	approved
Visual Studio Locator 1.0.71	332	Tuesday, June 13, 2017	approved
Visual Studio Locator 1.0.62	689	Wednesday, April 12, 2017	approved
Visual Studio Locator 1.0.58	370	Wednesday, March 15, 2017	approved
Visual Studio Locator 1.0.55	185	Wednesday, March 15, 2017	approved
Visual Studio Locator 1.0.50	812	Friday, March 10, 2017	approved
Visual Studio Locator 1.0.47	165	Wednesday, March 8, 2017	approved
Visual Studio Locator 1.0.40	195	Saturday, March 4, 2017	approved

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