You want to install Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8 ?

After downloading visualstudiosetup.exe go to command line and enter:

visualstudiosetup.exe --channelUri https://aka.ms/vs/17/release.LTSC.17.8/channel

Make selections and let install

Answer from Jodie on Stack Overflow
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How to download older version of Visual Studio 2022 Community - Microsoft Q&A
I’m afraid, it’s true, only the latest version of VS 2022 Community is available. The Visual Studio Community edition is supported only on the Current Channel with the latest servicing release of the latest minor version of Visual Studio(see this document for more details: Community edition support).
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December 9, 2025 - Choose a product below and click on the download button to log in to your Visual Studio (MSDN) subscription and gain access to the older versions. Search did not return any results.
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how to download visual studio community 2022 version - Microsoft Q&A
The current stable Community installer is available from the Visual Studio Release History page for 2026 under the “Installation of Visual Studio” section, using the Community bootstrapper.
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r/VisualStudio on Reddit: how can I download the Visual Studio 2022 community version?
November 22, 2025 -

Can anyone help me with how to download the Visual Studio 2022 Community version? I searched everywhere on the Microsoft website. There are only the Enterprise and Professional editions available for download. I need it for my university assignment. Can anyone help me?

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These different versions are available on the Current channel and the long-term servicing channels (LTSCs). The latest release on each channel is always, by definition, the most secure, so we highly encourage customers to stay up to date regardless of what channel they choose to get updates from. Refer to our support policy or our release rhythm documentation for additional information. The Visual Studio Community edition is only supported on the Current channel using the latest version of Visual Studio.
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2 weeks ago - Download older Visual Studio Community editions from 2013 to 2026 using official Microsoft links. Ideal for opening legacy .NET Framework projects and Xamarin apps.
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r/VisualStudio on Reddit: How do I install previous versions of Visual Studio 2022?
November 15, 2024 -

My project is incompatable with the new versions of VS and I need VS22 17.4.1, is there a way to get it? Or is there an alternative to VS? Thanks.

Edit: What a horrible company Visual Studio is not allowing users to revert to previous workable versions. My whole f**cking project is now unusable. My only option which I could potentially see to continue working on my project is to literally torrent a previous version of Visual Studio, and never again click that update button again. Such a horrible experience jesus christ. Literally woke up today excited to work on my project, first thing I see is to update visual studio, so I say wth ill do it. Did it. Whole day is f*cked trying to solve this issue. End up not even solving it. F*ck visual studio. Fucking garbage POS.

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July 25, 2019 - Visual Studio built-in features empower full development cycle. ... Search did not return any results. Please see pre-releases or older versions for more options.
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If you need previous versions of Visual Studio Community for Windows, this is the right place: on Uptodown you can download Visual Studio Community files from its version history if the latest version does not work on your device. Whether it's incompatibility issues or other errors, you can ...
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reddit.com › r/visualstudio › here's the microsoft page for visual studio 2022 download
r/VisualStudio on Reddit: Here's the Microsoft page for Visual Studio 2022 download
November 24, 2025 -

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")

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August 6, 2025 - The first thing you’re going to need is the Microsoft Update Catalog. If you follow this link, you’ll end up at the catalog with “Visual Studio 2022” already entered as the search term. Scan the list of updates and find the version you want to install. For example, let’s install 17.14.8. Click the Download button
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If you want to do an offline update from VS17.12 to 17.13 , you can follow below steps:

  1. 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
  1. 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

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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.