How can I check for Visual Studio updates via the command line?

Question

In an attempt to streamline my Virtual Environment setup, I\'m using Chocolatey to automate my VM.

Since I can run the cinst command to install Visual Studi

Answer 1

The answer from @Matt is outdated. For VS2019 follow this way:

1. Download file at https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/channel (it will be plain JSON file 'VisualStudio.16.Release.chman')
2. Check node: info->productDisplayVersion (or buildVersion) - they give enough info.