It's been just a couple week since the second preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6, with the latest iteration featuring improvements to Visual Studio Build Tools, Snapshot Debugging and more.

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The Visual Studio Build Tools, which allows for the creation of build servers without the installation of a Visual Studio instance are available (direct link to executable file) in a preview format.