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/ March 10, 2026
/ March 10, 2026
How do I download visual studio 2022 professional subscription to use on my PC?
Here's the Microsoft page for Visual Studio 2022 download
upgrade - How to download and offline install Visual Studio 2022 version update? - Stack Overflow
Is the VS 2022 offline installer available?
What is the difference between Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code?
What's the difference between Visual Studio 32-bit and 64-bit versions?
What are the limitations of Visual Studio Community compared to Professional and Enterprise editions?
Videos
Apparently Microsoft has been removing all references and links to VS 2022 from pretty much everywhere in their websites. Even if you search for Visual Studio 2022, and download the (supposedly) 2022 installer, it will download the 2026 installer. They've made most VS2022 links redirect to 2026 ones.
Anyway, after a bit of digging in this subreddit I found the one working page that lets you download Visual Studio 2022, and I'm making it a post so that others can find it more easily.
Here's the link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-history
Community Version: https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vs_community.exe (or just scroll down to "Current 17.14")
If you want to do an offline update from VS17.12 to 17.13 , you can follow below steps:
- Update the layout to a specific version of the product.
- Go to the Visual Studio 2022 Release History page and download a particular fixed version bootstrapper(e.g vs_Enterprise17.13.0), copy it into your layout, and use it to update the layout to that exact version specified in the bootstrapper.
- Run the --layout command in an elevated prompt to download the latest packages into your layout.
vs_enterprise.exe --layout c:\VSLayout
- Update your Visual Studio 2022 by running the Visual Studio Installer > Update or you can also use the following command:
vs_enterprise.exe update --noWeb --quiet --installpath "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise"
Update
The easiest and fastest way to update your offline Visual Studio instances: using a minimal offline layout.
Do i have to download the entire VS Layout package everytime if there is an version update?
Unlike a full Visual Studio layout, a minimal layout only contains the updated packages, so it is always smaller and faster to generate and deploy.
1.Generating a minimal layout.
MinimalLayout.exe generate --targetLocation c:\VSLayout\ --productIds Microsoft.VisualStudio.Product.Enterprise --baseVersion 17.12.5 --targetVersion 17.13.0 --languages en-US
2.Update the Visual Studio Installer
vs_enterprise.exe --quiet --update --offline C:\VSLayout\vs_installer.opc
3.Update the Visual Studio application
vs_enterprise.exe update --noWeb --quiet --installpath "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise"
Docs Referred:
Update the layout to a specific version of the product
Update Visual Studio from a layout
Microsoft has a handy post that details what you need to do. Essentially, at the command line on the computer with internet access, execute:
vs_enterprise.exe --layout c:\localVSlayout
Replace c:\localVsLayout with where you want to dump the files. It's going to be big! You may need to change vs_enterprise.exe with the correct executable name for your version of Visual Studio.