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by vbezhenar 1283 days ago
vscode does not provide MSI for download. Even Microsoft can't be bothered to do it.
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The inmates have been running the asylum at Microsoft for a number of years now. I assume it’s necessary to re-invent wheels, badly, for career advancement. (That’s not to say that MSI is particular nice, but it works reasonably well and saves a lot of downstream headaches.)
MSFT provides a method to repackage .EXE into a deployable package (named: Intunewin).

https://github.com/microsoft/Microsoft-Win32-Content-Prep-To...