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What is the difference between the "Hosted" and the "Hosted VS2017" on azure devops building pipeline?

Constantin Groß
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Azure DevOps Pipeline -> Diference between Hosted and Hosted VS 2017

There are a lot of differences between Hosted and Hosted VS 2017, but the main difference are the pre-installed softwares and the running platform.

You can check document Microsoft-hosted agents for the details info about [Microsoft-hosted agents.

Hosted: Visual Studio 2015 on Windows Server 2012r2.

Hosted VS 2017: Visual Studio 2017 on Windows Server 2016.

Note: Visual Studio 2010 SP1, Visual Studio SDK 2012 RTM, Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate Update 4, Visual Studio SDK 2013 RTM, Visual Studio 2013 Update 5, Visual Studio SDK 2015 RTM, Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 are all installed on machines in the Azure Pipelines Hosted pool.

Hope this helps.

Leo Liu
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  • Those links don't quite explain how from `queue: name: Hosted VS2017` you can deduce what kind of image it's mapped to. And vice versa - knowing that you need image `vs2017-win2016`, how do you deduce that queue name should be `Hosted VS2017` and not `vs2017-win2016` or `Hosted vs2017-win2016`. What's the relation between YAML queue name and image name? – JustAMartin Nov 03 '21 at 16:39