The setup file will check your machine for whether the prerequisite software is installed and will install any missing prerequisites and the product components. A supported version of Microsoft's Visual Studio 2017 must, however, be installed in advance.
You must have Microsoft's Visual Studio installed in advance.
You need one of the advanced versions of Visual Studio listed below:
Microsoft's Visual Studio Express Edition is not supported.
The following software is also required:
The Visual Studio 2017 installer enables you to customize and only install the workloads and components that are most suitable for your area of development. For example, you can select the components that are required for .NET desktop development, ASP.NET Web or C++ development.
The Help Viewer component is not installed by default and must be selected before you start the Visual Studio installation to ensure you can view the Enterprise Developer product help.
If not already installed, the Enterprise Developer setup file will install the following components:
A number of workloads and components are optional - for example, Azure, WCF, Web, WPF or SQL CLR application development. If you require any of these, you can select them when you start the Visual Studio 2017 installer or, enable them after completing the installation - see the next section.
If a feature of Visual Studio 2017 was not installed during the Visual Studio installation, the respective functionality or the project templates for it are not available. You can install a missing feature in one of the following ways:
Rerun the Visual Studio installer:
Use the Quick Launch control in Visual Studio 2017:
A drop-down list with any features matching your search string appears. If the feature is not already installed, one of the search results will be an option to install it.
Use the Install Missing Feature(s) command in Visual Studio 2017:
Follow the instructions in the installer to install the missing feature.
If you have a network server, you must update the license server before installing the product as the client is not able to communicate with license servers of versions older than 10000.2.660. On Windows, you can check the version of your license server by clicking Help > About in the Micro Focus License Administration tool.
You can download the new version of the license server software from the Micro Focus SupportLine Web site: http://supportline.microfocus.com.