Welcome to Visual Studio 2019! In this version, it's easy to choose and install just the features you need. And because of its reduced minimum footprint, it installs quickly and with less system impact.
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Welcome to a new way to install Visual Studio! In this version, we've made it easier for you to choose and install just the features you need. We've also reduced the minimum footprint of Visual Studio so that it installs more quickly and with less system impact than ever before.
Note
This topic applies to Visual Studio on Windows. For Visual Studio for Mac, see Install Visual Studio for Mac.
Want to know more about what else is new in this version? See our release notes.
Want to know more about what else is new in this version? See our release notes.
Ready to install? We'll walk you through it, step-by-step.
Step 1 - Make sure your computer is ready for Visual Studio
Before you begin installing Visual Studio:
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For questions about running previous versions of Visual Studio side by side with Visual Studio 2017, see the Visual Studio compatibility details.
For questions about running previous versions of Visual Studio side by side with Visual Studio 2019, see the Visual Studio 2019 Platform Targeting and Compatibility page.
Step 2 - Download Visual Studio
Next, download the Visual Studio bootstrapper file. To do so, choose the following button, choose the edition of Visual Studio that you want, choose Save, and then choose Open folder.
Step 3 - Install the Visual Studio installer
Run the bootstrapper file to install the Visual Studio Installer. This new lightweight installer includes everything you need to both install and customize Visual Studio.
Step 4 - Choose workloads
After the installer is installed, you can use it to customize your installation by selecting the feature sets—or workloads—that you want. Here's how.
Tip
At any time after installation, you can install workloads or components that you didn't install initially. If you have Visual Studio open, go to Tools > Get Tools and Features.. which opens the Visual Studio Installer. Or, open Visual Studio Installer from the Start menu. From there, you can choose the workloads or components that you wish to install. Then, choose Modify.
Step 5 - Choose individual components (Optional)
If you don't want to use the Workloads feature to customize your Visual Studio installation, or you want to add more components than a workload installs, you can do so by installing or adding individual components from the Individual components tab. Choose what you want, and then follow the prompts.
Step 6 - Install language packs (Optional)
By default, the installer program tries to match the language of the operating system when it runs for the first time. To install Visual Studio in a language of your choosing, choose the Language packs tab from the Visual Studio Installer, and then follow the prompts.
Change the installer language from the command line
Another way that you can change the default language is by running the installer from the command line. For example, you can force the installer to run in English by using the following command:
vs_installer.exe --locale en-US . The installer will remember this setting when it is run the next time. The installer supports the following language tokens: zh-cn, zh-tw, cs-cz, en-us, es-es, fr-fr, de-de, it-it, ja-jp, ko-kr, pl-pl, pt-br, ru-ru, and tr-tr.
Step 7 - Select the installation location (Optional)
New in 15.7: You can now reduce the installation footprint of Visual Studio on your system drive. You can choose to move the download cache, shared components, SDKs, and tools to different drives, and keep Visual Studio on the drive that runs it the fastest.
You can reduce the installation footprint of Visual Studio on your system drive. You can choose to move the download cache, shared components, SDKs, and tools to different drives, and keep Visual Studio on the drive that runs it the fastest.
Important
You can select a different drive only when you first install Visual Studio. If you've already installed it and want to change drives, you must uninstall Visual Studio and then reinstall it.
Visual Studio 2019 Offline Installation
For more information, see the Select installation locations page.
Step 8 - Start developing
Get support
Sometimes, things can go wrong. If your Visual Studio installation fails, see Troubleshooting Visual Studio installation and upgrade issues for step-by-step guidance.
We also offer a live chat (English only) support option for installation-related issues.
Here are a few more support options:
See also
Is it possible to install programs onto a network drive?For example, a laptop running a SSD will have limited space, so can I install programs on an external network drive to save space?
I want to install Visual Studio 2013 on a laptop with a SSD having 20 GB free. Visual Studio is 9.64 GB, which will take up most of my space. Can I install it on a network drive?
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You can target a network drive as the directory for most programs, if you want. You can then have a number of outcomes, depending on the program.
1) The program will not run at all.
2) The program will run, but only on the computer they were installed from.
3) The program, will run from any computer, but will have different settings depending on the computer.
4) The program is fully portable and will appear the same no matter where you run it from.
There's such a wide range that it's really impossible to give a concrete answer. Some programs will break with network drives, but work if you map it as a local drive or if you symlink a local directory to it. CHM help files fall in this category (security restrictions will work if symlinked, but not otherwise).
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No, It does not usually work, although you could install it as 'SEVERSharedAppsYourApp.exe' and if you have a share network drive (S: - SEVERShared), you could run the app from S:Apps
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You can reduce the installation footprint of Visual Studio on your system drive by changing the location for some of its files. Specifically, you can use a different location for the download cache, shared components, SDKs, and tools files.
New in version 15.7: You can reduce the installation footprint of Visual Studio on your system drive by changing the location for some of its files. Specifically, you can use a different location for the download cache, shared components, SDKs, and tools files.
Note
There are some tools and SDKs that have different rules on where they can be installed. Such tools and SDKs are installed on your system drive even if you choose another location.
Ready to get started? Here's how.
Get support
Sometimes, things can go wrong. If your Visual Studio installation fails, see Troubleshooting Visual Studio installation and upgrade issues for step-by-step guidance.
We also offer a live chat (English only) support option for installation-related issues.
Here are a few more support options:
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