Microsoft doesn't seem to care unless you're a company. That's the reason community edition is free. Individual licenses would be pennies to them, and they gain more than that by having a new person making things in their ecosystem. It's in their interest to make their platform accessible as possible.
replyVisual Studio does have that functionality, via vsconfig files: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/impor...
replyDoesn't look like it's versioned, or installs Visual Studio itself.
replyFor Visual Studio components that are versioned (like the C++ compilers/libraries), the version number is included in the component name.
replyYou still have to install the tool that processes pyproject.toml so that doesn’t seem fair to hold against it. You are right that you still have to know whether to install 2022 or 2026.
Curl the VS Build tools exe, then run the build tools command to install what's in the .vsconfig.
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