I'm trying to create the AdminDeployment.xml file for Visual Studio 2013 Professional Update 5 installation in unattended mode. I did not find information about VS 2013, as for 2015 it could be done with /CreateAdminFile command line key (see documentation), also I clearly remember, I did it with Visual Studio 2012, so the key definitely should be implememted
When I'm trying to run vs_professional.exe with /CreateAdminFile, this way:
vs_professional.exe /CreateAdminFile C:\Users\<Username>\Downloads
or this way:
vs_professional.exe /CreateAdminFile C:\Users\<Username>\Downloads\AdminDeployment.xml
it displays command-line help, and there's no /CreateAdminFile key among options. Interestingly, just /AdminFile is there, so my problem is to create file, my VS 2013 probably knows how to handle it
Appeared in Visual Studio 2013 you don't need to generate AdminDeployment.xml file, it already has a template, saved in a root directory on installation media. You just need to change the value of the NoWeb attribute of the BundleCustomizations element from "default" to "yes"
<BundleCustomizations TargetDir="default" NoWeb="yes"/>
and edit selectable items for components you want to install
<SelectableItemCustomization Id="VC_MFC_Libraries" Hidden="no" Selected="yes" />
After that you need to run installation with the key /AdminFile to set the location of unattend file
vs_professional.exe /AdminFile C:\Users\<Username>\Downloads