Hi @Saeed Pooladzadeh ,
the download button is at the bottom of this website: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/
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How to install visual studio 2019 community version
I can't download Visual Studio Community 2019 anymore. What's going on?
Is Visual Studio Community 2019 still available?
How do I install a previous version of Visual Studio 2019 Community? - Stack Overflow
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Hi @Saeed Pooladzadeh ,
the download button is at the bottom of this website: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/
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Andreas Baumgarten
Older versions like VS2019 Community can be obtained here - https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/. Note the comment "Select a product below and click on the download button to log in to your Visual Studio (MSDN) subscription or join the free Dev Essentials program, to gain access to the older versions."
Hi @Beast,
Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!
You can try to download the VS2019 Community using the link:
https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vs_community.exe
Sincerely,
Anna
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Community edition is special. Microsoft does not support any version of VS Community Edition other than the latest version which is VS 2022. If you have an MSDN subscription or a previous license to VS 2019 Professional/Edition then you can install and continue to use it. It is in extended support until 2029.
If you happen to have a copy of the VS 2019 Community installer then you can continue to install and use it. It won't just stop working. The trick is that you have to have already gotten a copy of the installer first. In the future, if you want to go this route, then I'd recommend keeping a copy of the installer so you can get back to it if needed.
Out of curiosity, is there a particular reason why you need VS2019? VS2022 is compatible with it and solutions loaded in one can be loaded in the other so you can technically bounce between the 2 versions in most cases. You mentioned minifilter drivers but that is supported in VS022 as well. I know the template for it was removed because it wasn't useful. Here's a link to a discussion about the changes and a starter file that might help you.
My HDD crashed a couple of days ago. After performing a fresh install of windows and my dev tools, I noticed that only Community 2022 is available via the Visual Studio Installer. Not sure if I'm missing something obvious, but I can't see any way of obtaining it any longer.
Because I require some plugins that aren't compatible with 2022 yet, I need 2019. If there's no way to obtain the community edition any longer, I might have to purchase a copy of VS2019 or re-license the plugin for 2022... and ideally I'd prefer to not spend anything.
Sorry if this has been asked before, I couldn't find anything after a quick search.
While the link shows Professional and Enterprise, I've tried it myself and it can install the Community version.
First fully uninstall Visual Studio 2019. Then download the Professional edition of the version you want and run it. In the "available" tab from the installer you'll find that it can install all 3 editions including Community of both 2017 and 2019, at the choosen version, regardless of the downloaded binary.
Note that this actually downloads the real installers from the web, thus while they work right now, we can't ensure they'll work in the future.
Here is the official source for all previous versions of all 3 product lines: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/history#release-dates-and-build-numbers
Can anyone tell me how can I download visual studio community 2019 version 16.11.16 ? I can't download it from https://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=visual%20studio%202019&wt.mc_id=o~msft~vscom~older-download . The download buttons are greyed out.
Microsoft no longer offers offline installers such as .ISO images of Visual Studio -- instead they have instructions of placing the burden on you to create an offline installer. You need to use the --layout command line argument and then run the downloaded installer.
Download and Cache offline files:
vs_community.exe --layout f:\vslayout.2019 --lang en-USRun from the cached directory
f: cd \vslayout.2019 vs_community.exe --noWeb
NOTE: Change drive F to match a drive on your system that has ~35 GB of free space for MSVC 2019. See the instructions for command line arguments to select just C++, .NET, etc. options.
You can get help on the command line arguments for the installer via:
vs_community --help
The relevant layout commands are:
command-line option Description
--layout <dir> Specifies a directory to create an offline install cache.
--lang <locales> Used with --layout to prepare an offline install cache with resource packages with the specified language(s). See a full list of supported language-locales below.
--add <workload> One or more workload or component IDs to add. The required components of the artifact are installed, but not the recommended or optional components. You can control additional components globally using --includeRecommended and/or --includeOptional. For finer-grained control, you can append ;includeRecommended or ;includeOptional to the ID (for example, --add Workload1;includeRecommended or --add Workload2;includeOptional).
Note: If --add is used, only the specified workloads and components and their dependencies are downloaded. If --add is not specified, all workloads and components are downloaded to the layout.
--includeRecommended Includes the recommended components for any workloads that are installed, but not the optional components. The workloads are specified either with --allWorkloads or --add.
--includeOptional Includes the recommended and optional components for any workloads being included in the layout. The workloads are specified with --add.
--keepLayoutVersion Apply changes to the layout without updating the version of the layout.
--verify Verify the contents of a layout. Any corrupt or missing files are listed.
--fix Verify the contents of a layout. If any files are found to be corrupt or missing, they are redownloaded. Internet access is required to fix a layout.
--clean <paths to catalogs>
I have developed an application using VB.NET to dynamically generate batch (.bat) scripts that can be used to download Visual Studio 2017, 2019, and 2022. You can customize the script using the controls included in the application and download it to a targeted drive. You can download it here.
This is my contribution to the community.
