Visual Studio 2013 Update 5: Unable to create unattend installation

Question

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

Answer 1

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