Install Visual Studio (2023)

Note

This topic applies to Visual Studio on Windows. For Visual Studio for Mac, see Install Visual Studio for Mac.

1. Check the system requirements. These requirements help you know whether your computer supports Visual Studio 2019.

2. Apply the latest Windows updates. These updates ensure that your computer has both the latest security updates and the required system components for Visual Studio.

3. Reboot. The reboot ensures that any pending installs or updates don't hinder your Visual Studio install.

4. Free up space. Remove unneeded files and applications from your system drive by, for example, running the Disk Cleanup app.

1. Check the system requirements. These requirements help you know whether your computer supports Visual Studio 2022.

2. Apply the latest Windows updates. These updates ensure that your computer has both the latest security updates and the required system components for Visual Studio.

3. Reboot. The reboot ensures that any pending installs or updates don't hinder your Visual Studio install.

4. Free up space. Remove unneeded files and applications from your system drive by, for example, running the Disk Cleanup app.

For questions about running previous versions of Visual Studio side by side with Visual Studio 2019, see Visual Studio 2019 Platform Targeting and Compatibility.

You can install Visual Studio 2022 side by side with previous versions. For more information, see Visual Studio 2022 platform targeting and compatibility and Install Visual Studio versions side-by-side.

To do so, select the following button, and choose the edition of Visual Studio that you want to download to your Downloads folder.

To do so, select the following button, and choose the edition of Visual Studio that you want to download to your Downloads folder.

1. From your Downloads folder, double-click the bootstrapper that matches or is similar to one of the following files:

   • vs_community.exe for Visual Studio Community
   • vs_professional.exe for Visual Studio Professional
   • vs_enterprise.exe for Visual Studio Enterprise

1. From your Downloads folder, double-click the bootstrapper VisualStudioSetup.exe to start the install.

1. Find the workload you want in the Visual Studio Installer.

   

   For example, choose the "ASP.NET and web development" workload. It comes with the default core editor, which includes basic code editing support for over 20 languages, the ability to open and edit code from any folder without requiring a project, and integrated source code control.

2. After you choose the workload(s) you want, choose Install.

   Next, status screens appear that show the progress of your Visual Studio installation.

1. Select the workload you want in the Visual Studio Installer.

   

   Review the workload summaries to decide which workload supports the features you need. For example, choose the ASP.NET and web development workload to edit ASP.NET Web pages with Web Live Preview or build responsive web apps with Blazor, or choose from Desktop & Mobile workloads to develop cross-platform apps with C#, or C++ projects that target C++20.

2. After you choose the workload(s) you want, select Install.

   Next, status screens appear that show the progress of your Visual Studio installation.

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 the Visual Studio Installer from the Start menu. From there, you can choose the workloads or components that you wish to install. Then, choose Modify.

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.

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's run the next time. The installer supports these language locales: 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.

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.

You can reduce the installation footprint of Visual Studio on your system drive. For more information, see Select installation locations.

Important

You can select a different drive for Visual Studio IDE or Download cache 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.

If you've installed Visual Studio on your computer before, you won't be able to change the Shared components, tools, and SDKs path and it will appear greyed out. This location is shared by all installations of Visual Studio.

1. After Visual Studio installation is complete, select the Launch button to get started developing with Visual Studio.

2. On the start window, choose Create a new project.

3. In the search box, enter the type of app you want to create to see a list of available templates. The list of templates depends on the workloads that you chose during installation. To see different templates, choose different workloads.

   You can also filter your search for a specific programming language by using the Language drop-down list. You can filter by using the Platform list and the Project type list, too.

4. Visual Studio opens your new project, and you're ready to code!

1. After your Visual Studio installation is complete, select the Launch button to get started developing with Visual Studio.

2. On the start window, choose Create a new project.

3. In the template search box, enter the type of app you want to create to see a list of available templates. The list of templates depends on the workloads that you chose during installation. To see different templates, choose different workloads.

   You can also filter your search for a specific programming language by using the Language drop-down list. You can filter by using the Platform list and the Project type list, too.

4. Visual Studio opens your new project, and you're ready to code!