Installer update

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The Visual Studio Installer might require updating before you continue. Choose the Update button to install the updates. You might have to update the installer before continuing.

If so, follow the prompts. In the installer, look for the instance of Visual Studio that you want to update. Choose Update to install the updates. Manually check for updates You can check to see if an update is available by choosing Help from the menu bar, and then choosing Check for Updates. In the Update available dialog box, choose Update.

Run a specific bootstrapper If you're an Enterprise or Professional customer, you can update your instance of Visual Studio to any specific version that has been released, as long as it's a higher version than what is currently installed. Customize update settings There are several different settings that can be customized to control the update behavior.

Expand Environment , and then choose Product Updates. Configure source location of updates If you're in an enterprise environment, then it's possible to configure the location that your client instances looks for updates. Update on close In Visual Studio version Choose Update to install the update.

Customize update settings There are several different settings that can be customized to control the update behavior, such as how and when the product bits are downloaded and installed, or where the update source location is.

Configure source location of updates With Visual Studio , you can now configure where your clients will get their updates from. The Update settings dialog will look like this. Additional things to keep in mind are: The Preview and Current channels are available for all editions of Visual Studio, and the LTSC channels are only available for Professional and Enterprise customers.

You can choose to update your instance of Visual Studio immediately after you configure the update channel location. Or you can defer the actual product update until some later time. The act of configuring the update channel and the act of updating the product are two independent events. When you update to a new channel, you will install the most recent release on that channel. If you are an enterprise customer and want to install a particular version on a channel, then follow the Run a specific bootstrapper instructions described previously.

You can only change the update channel if the version of the product that's available at the tip of that channel is greater than the version you have installed.

For example, you can always transition from the Current channel to the Preview channel, but you can't transition from the Preview channel to the Current channel until the latest release on the Current channel surpasses the version of Preview that you have installed. LTSC channels all have expiration dates. Once the LTSC has expired, it will not be able to be used as a source of updates, and it will disappear from this list. All Microsoft channels are hosted on Microsoft servers and require access to the internet.

Each instance of Visual Studio has the ability to independently configure its source for updates. So, if you have two instances of Visual Studio installed, each can update from a different channel. IT Administrators can control the values in the Update channel dropdown.

For example, they can add network layout locations as update sources. They can also suppress Microsoft hosted locations from being available as update source options. This functionality works for Visual Studio installs too. For information on how to configure these update locations, refer to the Visual Studio Administrators Guide Update on close When an update is available, the update notification UI in the IDE provides a way to defer the update until you voluntarily close Visual Studio.

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