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Install visual studio 2013 on drive D.

Last week I bought a dell pro 32gb site with a 32gb sd card.

I tried to install Visual Studio 2013 to SD card due to insufficient space on C: \ but it was tricky.

I made a non-removable sd card.

I've also tried a symbolic link between C: \ and D: \, but that also requires space for C.

Is there any other way to install Visual Studio 2013 to D drive without any space using C: \?

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I found a partial solution here:

https://aurir.wordpress.com/2013/12/24/installing-visual-studio-on-dell-venue-8-pro-tablets-microsd-card/

Basically you create a mount D in C and mount it on that mount. However VS still installs some bloat in C.



If you are interested in the installation options for VS. They are here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e2h7fzkw.aspx

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According to my research, Visual Studio will always require at least some space on the system drive:

While Visual Studio 11 allows you to install most of the functionality on a different drive, VS11 still requires system drive space for the following reasons:

  • Common runtimes such as the .NET Framework and Visual C / C ++ that require installation to the system drive.
  • Packages common to other products that have their own installation folders, such as SQL Server and Windows SDK
  • Components common to other applications such as Office or services such as IIS Windows Installer and package caching

Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/heaths/archive/2012/03/07/why-visual-studio-11-requires-space-on-the-system-drive.aspx



There are some potential alternatives for reducing space, albeit again; it will still require some space on the system drive.

(Note: This tutorial is specifically talking about Visual Studio 11 instead of Visual Studio 2013, however there is no indication that this has changed since VS 2013 and for the reasons given, for example based on the vital components themselves, I see that no reason to expect would have changed in VS 2013.)

There is also a UserVoice page where you can vote for this idea: https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/2120283-allow-users-to-install-entirely-to-another- hard-dr (although, again, there's a strong indication that this isn't likely to happen, at least not any time soon.)

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