Getting VSTO Projects to Build Without Installing Visual Studio

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I stumbled upon a couple of good posts about getting VSTO projects to build on a continuous integration machine that doesn’t have Visual Studio installed on it.

Unfortunately we do not make this very easy to do, but these bloggers provide some help:

Rinat Abdullin’s post is here:

https://abdullin.com/journal/2009/2/17/building-vsto-solutions-without-visual-studio.html

Kent Boogaart has a post here:

https://kentb.blogspot.com/2008/08/building-vsto-projects-without-visual.html

And Stephen Griffin has a post here:

https://blogs.msdn.com/stephen_griffin/archive/2009/01/08/building-vsto-without-office-installed.aspx