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Can Roslyn be installed on VS Community Edition?


I'm getting a "Setup Failed" "A compatible version of Visual Studio was not detected... You must have Visual Studio 2012..."

Is it incompatible with VS2013? Or perhaps with the Community Edition? (I have VS2013 Community Edition) I don't see anything about that in the System Requirements.


Solution

  • Well, if you look a little further:

    Required Pre-installed Products:

    • Visual Studio 2012
    • Visual Studio 2012 SDK

    Also, from the Github project:

    Roslyn is no longer available for Visual Studio 2013

    Assuming you have a version of Visual Studio 2015 available, the easiest way to get Rosyln is probably the NuGet package:

    Install-Package Microsoft.CodeAnalysis -Pre