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Visual Studio Express 12
Visual Studio Express 2015 For Windows Desktop
Visual Studio Express 2017
Visual Studio Express 2018
Visual Studio Express 2012

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express is a basic and free toolkit to allow you to develop and build applications for the Web, your smart phone, desktop or the cloud. While billed as software for any level of developer, the people most likely to make use out of this toolkit are beginners. Visual Studio IDE Visual Studio for Mac Visual Studio Code To continue downloading, click here Visual Studio Community 2019 – Free IDE and Developer Tools 2021-05-26T08:48:59-07:00.

These downloads may update Visual Studio and the .NET Framework on your machine. Some of the downloads may only support certain Visual Studio versions.

.NET/.NET Core

Visual Studio Express 12

.NET is a free, cross-platform, open-source developer platform for building many different types of applications.

Version	Status	Visual Studio 2017 SDK	Visual Studio 2019 SDK	Runtime	Release notes
.NET 6.0	Preview	N/A	x64 SDK \| x86 SDK (v6.0.100-preview.4)	x64 Runtime \| x86 Runtime (v6.0.0-preview.4)	Release notes
.NET 5.0	Current	N/A	x64 SDK \| x86 SDK (v5.0.300)	x64 Runtime \| x86 Runtime (v5.0.6)	Release notes
.NET Core 3.1	LTS	N/A	x64 SDK \| x86 SDK (v3.1.409)	x64 Runtime \| x86 Runtime (v3.1.15)	Release notes
.NET Core 3.0	End of life	N/A	x64 SDK \| x86 SDK (v3.0.103)	x64 Runtime \| x86 Runtime (v3.0.3)	Release notes
.NET Core 2.2	End of life	x64 SDK \| x86 SDK (v2.2.110)	x64 SDK \| x86 SDK (v2.2.207)	x64 Runtime \| x86 Runtime (v2.2.8)	Release notes
.NET Core 2.1	LTS	x64 SDK \| x86 SDK (v2.1.524)	x64 SDK \| x86 SDK (v2.1.816)	x64 Runtime \| x86 Runtime (v2.1.28)	Release notes
.NET Core 2.0	End of life	x64 SDK \| x86 SDK (v2.1.202)	x64 SDK \| x86 SDK (v2.1.202)	x64 Runtime \| x86 Runtime (v2.0.9)	Release notes
.NET Core 1.1	End of life	x64 SDK \| x86 SDK (v1.1.14)	x64 SDK \| x86 SDK (v1.1.14)	x64 Runtime \| x86 Runtime (v1.1.13)	Release notes
.NET Core 1.0	End of life	x64 SDK \| x86 SDK (v1.1.14)	x64 SDK \| x86 SDK (v1.1.14)	x64 Runtime \| x86 Runtime (v1.0.16)	Release notes

.NET Standard

.NET Standard is a formal specification of .NET APIs that are intended to be available on all .NET implementations. To target .NET Standard in your projects, install one of the SDKs from the .NET Core table. For more information, see the .NET Standard article.

.NET Framework

.NET Framework is a Windows-only version of .NET for building any type of app that runs on Windows.

Version	Developer Pack	Runtime	Release notes
.NET Framework 4.8	Developer Pack	Runtime	Release notes
.NET Framework 4.7.2	Developer Pack	Runtime	Release notes
.NET Framework 4.7.1	Developer Pack	Runtime	Release notes
.NET Framework 4.7	Developer Pack	Runtime	Release notes
.NET Framework 4.6.2	Developer Pack	Runtime	Release notes
.NET Framework 4.6.1	Developer Pack	Runtime	Release notes
.NET Framework 4.6	Developer Pack	Runtime	Release notes
.NET Framework 4.5.2	Developer Pack	Runtime	Release notes
.NET Framework 4.5.1	Developer Pack	Runtime	Release notes
.NET Framework 4.5	Runtime	Release notes
.NET Framework 4.0	Runtime	Release notes
.NET Framework 3.5 SP1	Runtime	Release notes

Services

Service	Tools	Documentation
Microsoft Azure	Azure SDK for .NET Included in Visual Studio 2017	Developer Documentation
Office 365, Office & SharePoint	Included in Visual Studio 2017	Developer Documentation
OneDrive	Live SDK	Developer Documentation
Bing	Developer Documentation

Devices

Platform	Tools	Documentation
Xamarin	Xamarin Tools for iOS and Android Included in Visual Studio 2017	Developer Documentation

Game Development

Platform	Tools	Documentation
Unity	Visual Studio 2015 Tools for Unity Included in Visual Studio 2017	Developer Documentation

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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.

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

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Check the system requirements. These requirements help you know whether your computer supports Visual Studio 2017.
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.
Reboot. The reboot ensures that any pending installs or updates don't hinder the Visual Studio install.
Free up space. Remove unneeded files and applications from your %SystemDrive% by, for example, running the Disk Cleanup app.

Check the system requirements. These requirements help you know whether your computer supports Visual Studio 2019.
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.
Reboot. The reboot ensures that any pending installs or updates don't hinder the Visual Studio install.
Free up space. Remove unneeded files and applications from your %SystemDrive% by, for example, running the Disk Cleanup app.

For questions about running previous versions of Visual Studio side by side with Visual Studio 2017, see the Visual Studio compatibility d