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Not able to download visual studio 2019 community
I can't download Visual Studio Community 2019 anymore. What's going on?
Is Visual Studio Community 2019 still available?
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For numerous reasons, No.
Why is explained in this MSDN post.
First, from a performance perspective the pointers get larger, so data structures get larger, and the processor cache stays the same size. That basically results in a raw speed hit (your mileage may vary). So you start in a hole and you have to dig yourself out of that hole by using the extra memory above 4G to your advantage. In Visual Studio this can happen in some large solutions but I think a preferable thing to do is to just use less memory in the first place. Many of VSโs algorithms are amenable to this. Hereโs an old article that discusses the performance issues at some length: https://learn.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/joshwil/should-i-choose-to-take-advantage-of-64-bit
Secondly, from a cost perspective, probably the shortest path to porting Visual Studio to 64 bit is to port most of it to managed code incrementally and then port the rest. The cost of a full port of that much native code is going to be quite high and of course all known extensions would break and weโd basically have to create a 64 bit ecosystem pretty much like you do for drivers. Ouch.
Update: April 19th 2021
Microsoft announced their preview Visual Studio 2022 64 bit
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.
For anyone else in same/similar boat as me - I needed Visual Studio 2019 Community in 2024 - these two below options worked for me. Note - I have a feeling someday one or both of these solutions will stop working if MS disables them somehow - but they're still working as of 5/2024.
1) Get VS2019 Community Installer from MS website
As of today appears still available for download: https://docs.microsoft.com/nb-no/visualstudio/releases/2019/system-requirements
2) Powershell Method
Part 1: Just get the VS2019 installer
# A) Specify the download URL for the Visual Studio 2019 Community edition offline installer
$url = "https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vs_community.exe"
# B) Specify the path where you want to save the downloaded installer
$outputPath = "C:\temp\vs_community.exe"
# C) Download the file using Invoke-WebRequest
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url -OutFile $outputPath
Part 2: Also get the Full Offline Installer
(This is meant to be done after Part 1 above. Note: I didn't really need this but started it and it seems to work)
# (Must be in same folder as vs_community.exe)
# A) Specify where to put *ALL* the files for the full offline installer (?)
$layoutOutputPath = "C:\temp\VS2019CommunityLayout"
# B) Start the (long?) download process
Start-Process -FilePath "vs_community.exe" -ArgumentList "--layout $layoutOutputPath" -Wait
(Shout out to this guy on Reddit for small installer tip)
Officially, Microsoft provides older installer for VS 2019, but only the Enterprise, Professional, and Build Tools. Meanwhile Community edition
is only supported on the recommended latest release of the latest minor version of Visual Studio
So if you expect to be needing VS Community older version in the future, I suggest backing up the offline installer when they're released.
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