771291 - Figure out how to incorporate VS2012 into our w64 imaging process

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Infrastructure & Operations Graveyard :: CIDuty, task, P3)

Description

[Armen [:armenzg]]

Eventually we will want to deploy the VS2012 RC to the Win64 slaves and incorporate to the re-imaging process.

FTR: We don't want to deploy the current RC to our slaves until there is a final version but I would like to have a script for it and perhaps have a dedicated VM where we have the files placed in.

This is what I have done:
* Download VS Professional "Product Layout File" [1] (this is a small file)
* The executable only asks for a directory to download the whole thing to. In my case I put everything on C:\Tools\VS12_RC
* I shared C:\Tools\VS12_RC from w64-ix-slave40
** I also set "Turn off password protected sharing"
* From the slave I want this installed to I do:
** run this "\\w64-ix-slave40\VS12_RC\vs_professional.exe /quiet /restart"

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads#professional

Comment 1

[Amy Rich [:arr] [:arich]]

w64-ix-slave40.winbuild.scl1 is alerting in nagios.  I presume it's not running nrpe due to the changes being made here.  Please be sure to fix nagios when this machine is done being used for test purposes.

Comment 2

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

 http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2012/08/01/windows-8-has-reached-the-rtm-milestone.aspx

The final release of VS 11 will be out August 15th.

Comment 3

[Matthew Larrain[:MaRu]]

Armen I can have MDT run that from the command line and if any files need to be placed on the system then I can also have MDT do that. Both seem relatively easy to accomplish.

Comment 4

[Matthew Larrain[:MaRu]]

passing this back to armen since I answered his questions regarding this.

Comment 5

[Amy Rich [:arr] [:arich]]

Giving this to coop since he's taking care of the windows stuff while armen is on PTO.

Comment 6

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Reassigning to Armen since we never got to this point while he was away.

Comment 7

[Armen [:armenzg]]

Today, I'm grabbing the final release of VS2012 and installing it into one of our slaves.
Once I verified I would like to ask a w64 slave to be re-image but adding the step to install VS2012 as well.
I will verify that both the w32/VS2010 and w32-metro/VS2012 builds can be generated.
This is part of adding nightly builds for the elm project.

Comment 8

[Armen [:armenzg]]

We dropped the necessity to use VS2012.

Comment 9

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

How can we enable Metro support without using VS2012?

Comment 10

[Armen [:armenzg]]

I don't know. jimm is doing some more investigation.
If anything was to change we would reopen this bug.

Comment 11

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

(In reply to Masatoshi Kimura [:emk] from comment #9)
> How can we enable Metro support without using VS2012?

Back port the widget back end to vs10 (bug 794983), figure out how to use the 8.0 sdk with normal builds (bug 774910), and anything else that comes up along the way.