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Visual Studio images on Windows runners

Which Visual Studio workloads and SDK components are preinstalled on runnerhut Windows runners, and how to add your own.

Specifications

VS 2022
17.12 Build Tools
VS 2025
18.0 Build Tools
Workloads
C++, .NET desktop, ASP.NET, UWP
Windows SDK
10.0.22621, 10.0.26100

Runner labels

  • runnerhut-8vcpu-windows-2022

Installing a Visual Studio workload at job time takes 8–15 minutes. The images ship the four workloads that cover most builds; anything beyond that is better baked into a custom image than installed per job.

powershell
& "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vs_installer.exe" `
  modify --quiet --norestart `
  --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.ATL
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