To download the Visual Studio 2022 Community installer, use the direct link:
👉 https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vs_community.exe
This is the official bootstrapper for Visual Studio 2022 Community, which is free for students, open-source contributors, and individual developers.
Key Points:
Editions Available: Community (free), Professional (paid), and Enterprise (paid).
Installation Method:
Run the downloaded
vs_community.exefile.The installer will download required components and guide you through selecting workloads (e.g., .NET, C++, Web Development).
Offline Installation:
To create an offline installer, run the following command in an elevated command prompt:
vs_community.exe --layout C:\VS2022Offline --lang en-USThis creates a full offline layout in
C:\VS2022Offlinethat can be used on machines without internet access.To install from offline layout:
C:\VS2022Offline\vs_community.exe --noWeb --channelURI "C:\VS2022Offline\channelManifest.json"
⚠️ Note: Microsoft has phased out many direct links to VS 2022. The
vs_community.exelink above is currently reliable. Avoid general search results that redirect to newer versions like Visual Studio 2026.
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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?
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")
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
If you want to install a specific version of visual studio , Download from below link.
To go back to an earlier release, you must uninstall your current installation and use below link to download and re-install the version that you prefer.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-history#updating-your-installation-to-a-specific-release
Hi Shay Wilner,
You can download Visual Studio 2022 community by using this link. Hope this helps! If my answer was helpful, please follow the instructions here so others with the same problem, can benefit as well.
Vs 2022 community is no longer available. The current version is vs 2026 community. Vs 2022 is only available as a paid version now.
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.