The latest version of Visual Studio, i.e. Visual Studio 2019 is committed towards faster execution, more productive for developers to perform their tasks; be it be refactoring, debugging and/or faster build process. It gives more focus on real time collaborations between team members using the capabilities like Live Share.

 

Visual Studio 2019 (RTM and Preview) can be installed side-by-side with Visual Studio 2017 and will not require any major upgrade of the Operating System. To download the latest version of Visual Studio 2019, continue reading.

 

Download Visual Studio 2019

 

Visual Studio 2019 Release Date

Microsoft released Visual Studio 2019 on 2nd April 2019, by organizing an online launch event.

 

How to download Visual Studio 2019 (RTM)?

 

 

How to download Visual Studio 2019 Offline Installer (ISO/DVD image)?

Like Visual Studio 2017, Microsoft didn't release any offline installer (ISO/DVD image) of Visual Studio 2019 due to its size and various workloads. In most of the cases we don't need all the workloads that it downloads. So, it is a generic requirement to customize and select the one that we really need to save your internet bandwidth.

 

If you really need the Visual Studio 2019 offline installer, you can use the --layout option to select the individual workload and download the required package(s) which you can use to install the IDE on multiple systems having no/limited internet connectivity.

 

To create the entire offline image of Visual Studio 2019, run:

vs_enterprise  --layout  "C:\VS2019"

 

To create the offline installer for English localized language:

vs_enterprise  --layout  "C:\VS2019"  --lang en-US

 

To create the offline installer for English and Japanese language:

vs_enterprise  --layout  "C:\VS2019"  --lang en-US ja-JP

 

To create the offline installer with only ".NET desktop development" workload, run:

vs_enterprise  --layout  "C:\VS2019"  --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktop

 

To create the installer with ".NET desktop development" and "Azure development" workloads:

vs_enterprise  --layout  "C:\VS2019"  --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktop Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.Azure

 

 


Kunal Chowdhury

About the Author

Solution Architect & Former Microsoft MVP

Kunal Chowdhury is an enterprise solution architect and former multi-year Microsoft MVP. He is the author of three technical books: Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook, Mastering Visual Studio 2017, and the Mastering Visual Studio 2019.

He publishes technical and non-technical articles on .