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I'm used to seeing an update option in Help About. How do you update the Visual Studio 2017 IDE to the latest version?
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Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 is the final supported servicing baseline for Visual Studio 2017 and has entered the extended support period. Enterprise and Professional customers needing to adopt a long term stable and secure development environment are encouraged to standardize on this version.
If you have Visual Studio open, go to Tools > Get Tools and Features... which opens the Visual Studio Installer. Or, open the Visual Studio Installer from the Start menu. From there, you can choose the workloads or components that you wish to install.
Download the web installer for VS2022 and start it, allowing it to update “Visual Studio Installer”. Then cancel out of it. Fire up VS Installer again, where you'll see your existing VS2019 install under “Installed”. Under “More”, you'll see an option to export the configuration to a .
This is not the latest version of Visual Studio. To download the latest release, please visit the current release notes for Visual Studio 2019. To download Visual Studio 2017, click the download button and log in with your Visual Studio Subscription when prompted.
When there are updates, there's a corresponding notification flag in Visual Studio. Choose the notification flag to open the Notifications hub. Tip. An update for an edition of Visual Studio 2017 is cumulative, so always choose to install the one with the most recent version number.
.NET Core updates have released today and are included in this Visual Studio update. This release addresses security and other important issues. Details can be found in the .NET Core release notes. Starting a new nanoFramework project from a template. Deployment errors after VS2017 update. Android Deploy failed - Error ADB0010.
In the Notifications hub, choose the update that you want to install. If you want to update now, then choose View details. If you want to defer the update until when you close Visual Studio, choose Update on Close. If you chose View details, then in the subsequent Update available dialog box, choose Update.
While in the Visual Studio 2017 IDE, you'll see a yellow flag in the title bar that indicates that at least one notification is waiting:
You can single-click that flag icon to view the notifications. If you see an update, you can click the link. That takes you to the Extensions and Updates window.
But to get to updates when you might have dismissed notifications or when you don't see the yellow-flag icon, you can get to that window directly. To do that, go to Tools | Extensions and Updates. On the left pane select Updates. You'll see a list of available updates. To install one, click the Update button. In the image below, Visual Studio Update 15.1 (26403.7) is available and its Update button appears on the right edge of the selected item.
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