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Axima
#1 Posted : Thursday, May 28, 2026 6:47:12 AM(UTC)
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We have rebuilt our grid node server, and I was trying to see if it could function as a grid node without Visual Studio installed.
The relevant SDK's and runtimes are installed.

The Distributed Processing documentation page says "Depending upon your solution, you may or may not need to have Visual Studio installed on each grid node."

Are you able to elaborate further on what these requirements are?
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Hi, thanks for posting.

Sadly, it's hard to provide more detail about this in the documentation, because it depends entirely on the toolsets being used.

In theory, it IS now possible to run a grid node without VS installed, through the use of the Dotnet SDK.

Install the version of .NET that you're using on the grid node. Make sure you have the same exact version of .NET on all workstations that use it. Then use the Build Sdk setting to select it. When a client tries to use the grid node to build a solution, it passes the value of this setting to the node and the node will then use the closest match of the SDK it has installed. Note that some older toolsets still require VS, but the newer stuff should be OK.
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Axima
#3 Posted : Thursday, May 28, 2026 10:19:34 AM(UTC)
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Thanks for the insight.
Looking at the Build Sdk setting, I think it's best we reinstall VS and continue to run that way.
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