I have a Resharper 9x license and it is only compatible up to MS VS Community 2015 edition. I tried to download the 2015 version from Microsoft but their website stubbornly wants me to have 2017, only. Can someone please provide me a url to the 2015 edition? Or, explain how to navigate Microsoft's site to obtain the 2015 edition?
Update on solution
1) vs_community.exe is the download filename for any version, 2015, 2017, etc. You will not know which version it is until you click the .exe. You will then see the version in the title of the installer.
2) There is a url trick to get the version that you want.
https://www.visualstudio.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=Community&rel=15
...change the rel=15 to rel=17 etc
Or use the links provided in the answer below
You can use these links to download Visual Studio 2015
Community Edition:
Web Installer
ISO Image
And for anyone in the future who might be looking for the other editions here are the links for them as well:
Professional Edition:
Web Installer
ISO Image
Enterprise Edition:
Web Installer
ISO Image
The "official" way to get the vs2015 is to go to https://my.visualstudio.com/ ; join the " Visual Studio Dev Essentials" and then search the relevant file to download https://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual%20Studio%202015%20with%20Update%203
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I have a software application called appTranslator that I have used for many years to manage language translations. It comes with a appTranslatorTESetup (Translator Edition) that i give our translators.
Today I supplied the download link to a user and he was not able to install it. The software was compiled in 2007 so I am assuming it was using the Visual C++ Redistributable 2005.
I looked at the official Microsoft page here. I can see:
Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019
Visual Studio 2013
Visual Studio 2012
Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2008 SP1
Concerning version 2008 it states:
Visual Studio 2008 reached end of support on April 10, 2018. To aid the discovery of the latest downloads, the links are retained currently, but may be removed in the future.
After another search I came up with:
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package MFC Security Update
Is this considered the latest official available edition?
I can confirm that the link I provided is the latest 2005 redist download.
And when my user installed it they were able to run appTranslatorTE.
It may be worth keeping a copy of these redist downloads for legacy app support.
As of 16-04-2022 the link is valid:
I do have some VS2005 Redist downloads on my DropBox folder in some languages:
Not sure of the est way to make these available for all as an alternative download.
I installed the new Visual Studio 2019, but it is much slower (at least in my machine) than the 2017 version, and working is getting very frustrating. I want to get back but I can't find where to download the previous version.
I tried using this URL: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/, but it doesn't work. I get the following message "Sorry, we couldn't find any downloads for you."
Thanks.
The Microsoft site can be induced to give up different versions.
See:
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=Community&rel=15
Change the '15' to 16, and 17 and see what you get.
I figured out how to do it. I post the solution in case someone else has the same problem.
You just need to access https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/ and If you get the same message than me, just join to the Visual Studio Dev Essentials (in the same page is a link to do it), it is free, and then you can download older versions of Visual Studio.
Regards,
The URL https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/ works well for me. I subscribed to the free Visual Studio Dev Essentials and got access to the following versions:
2017
2015
2013
2012
2010
As of today (5th Jan 2023), the following link invokes installation the 2017 Community Version:
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=Community&rel=15
The install launcher you can download from TechSpot still works fine.
No strings attached.
I was having the same issue (even with Dev essentials and I didn´t have the option to download vs 2017 community, but 2017 professional instead), then I finally tried downloading the professional version (Then I just cancelled at the moment it asks which components) and suddenly it unlocks the 2017 community install in the visual studio installer hub.
As of 27 July 2022 if you have Visual Studio 2019 or 2022 installed you can use the VS installer to download and install in parallel any version of VS 2017.
I have Visual Studio 2013 and want to install SDK for it.
Can't add 2015 SDK because it is part of VS 2015 installation, I couldn't find a stand alone installation.
2013 SDK was removed from the official site.
It is also not contained in my installation package for VS.
Thanks
Apart from excellent answer by Sara Liu - MSFT, I was able to find a Visual Studio 2013 SDK - Microsoft Go! download page from google. The direct link was go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9832352 and it downloaded a +13Mb vssdk_full.exe
Please navigate to this: Download older versions of VS and click the ‘Join now for free’ to sign in with your Microsoft account, if you are not a subscriber. Then confirm to join the VS Dev Essential if you have not joined before. Click ‘Downloads’ and search with the keyword ‘Visual Studio 2013 SDK’, you will get the download link as below:
I have installed VS 2015 community edition. I am looking forward to develop outlook add-in for outlook 2010 or on wards. I can't find any outlook add-in option in project template of VS. Any help would be highly appreciated.
Luckily for you I ran into this recently and found this very helpful page.
How to install Office Developper Tools for VS Community Edition ? (sic)
Download and install Visual Studio 2015 Update3 Community
Download and Install Microsoft Web Platform Installer
Open Microsoft Web Platform Installer and search with “Office Tools”
Then install Microsoft Office Developer Tools Update2 for Visual Studio 2015
We have installed Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition on several Computer on my company. And now , as we are going to work on closed-source projects :
is it possible to switch to standard professional license (just like if we did install the professionnal edition) ?
or do we have to reinstall the VS 2015 professional edition on all the computers !
In short, is it possible to switch without reinstall all my 10 PC ?
Best regards.
It is not possible to just enter the VS Professional license key, but you don't have to necessarily uninstall the Community version.
However, you will have to run the VS Professional installer that will upgrade the Community version to the Professional one. This is also suggested here [1].
You will find here [2] an answer to a similar question, stating that although running the installer will upgrade the existing Community edition, uninstalling and reinstalling is recommended.
[1] https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/6202c332-bf73-4073-8ee6-70a3c5402467/upgrading-from-community-to-professional-seems-impossible-how?forum=vssetup
[2] Can Visual Studio Community 2015 be easily updated to Visual Studio Professional 2015