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SUPPORT ENDS FOR OLDER VERSIONS OF VISUAL STUDIO
Paul C
February 10th, 2022
We want to keep you secure when using Visual Studio. If you’re using an older
version of Visual Studio, we have several reminders about upcoming events in the
Visual Studio support lifecycle.
1. Visual Studio 2012: support ends on January 10, 2023 for the IDE and its
associated products, runtimes, and components. We recommend users upgrade to
a newer version of Visual Studio.
2. Visual Studio 2017: mainstream support ends April 12, 2022, and the product
will transition to extended support until April 2027. During extended
support we’ll provide fixes only for security issues. We recommend users
move to the 15.9 supported baseline to remain under support.
3. Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7: support ends April 12, 2022. We recommend
users move to the version 16.11 supported baseline, or to Visual Studio
2022.
4. Visual Studio 2019 Preview Channel: after April 2022, we will no longer
provide updates to the Preview Channel of Visual Studio 2019. We recommend
users migrate to either the Visual Studio 2019 Release Channel or to Visual
Studio 2022 Preview to stay secure and receive the latest feature updates.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR YOU?
Visual Studio 2022 is our most productive IDE ever, and we recommend all our
customers upgrade to it, especially those using the Community Edition. With
Visual Studio 2022 we offer three channels: Preview Channel so that you can
provide early feedback on the latest features. The Current Channel provides
these new features when they are ready for widespread use. Users should install
each minor update of the Current Channel as it is released to stay in support.
Finally, for the Enterprise, Professional, and Build Tools Editions, we
offer Long-Term Servicing Channels (LTSC) to give your development team more
control over when you adopt new feature releases. We provide quality and
security fixes for LTSC for 18 months after release.
Install Visual Studio 2022
Similarly, Visual Studio 2019 offers users of the Enterprise and Professional
editions long-term stable and secure development environment by using the
servicing baselines. If you’re using version 16.7, to remain under support
you’ll need to update to a supported serving baseline. Support for version 16.9
will end October 2022. Version 16.11 will be supported for the balance of the
Visual Studio 2019 lifecycle, with Mainstream support ending April 2024, and
extended support ending April 2029. For more information about these lifecycle
phases, see Fixed Lifecycle Policy.
Visual Studio Subscribers can find Visual Studio 2019 and older versions in the
downloads tab of the subscriptions portal at my.visualstudio.com.
VISUAL STUDIO 2012
On January 10, 2023, support will end for all Visual Studio 2012 editions,
associated products, runtimes, and components and they will no longer receive
security updates. These include:
* Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate, Premium, Professional, Express for Web, Express
for Windows Desktop, Team Explorer, and Test Professional editions.
* Visual Studio 2012 Shell (Integrated) and Shell (Isolated).
* Visual Studio 2012 version of components including Agents, IntelliTrace
Collector, Microsoft Azure Tools, Remote Tools, SDK, SQL Server Data Tools,
Team Explorer, Visual C++ Redistributable, Web Tools Extensions.
We recommend users upgrade to a newer version of Visual Studio to remain under
support. Please see below for the upcoming end-of-support dates for Visual
Studio.
Visual Studio version End of Mainstream Support End of Support Visual Studio
2022, Current Channel January 2027 January 2032 Visual Studio 2022, version
17.0 LTSC n/a July 2023 Visual Studio 2019, version 16.11 April 2024 April 2029
Visual Studio 2019, version 16.9 n/a October 2022 Visual Studio 2019,
version 16.7 n/a April 2022 Visual Studio 2017, version 15.9 April 2022 April
2027 Visual Studio 2015, Update 3 including KB3165756 October 2020 October 2025
Visual Studio 2013, Update 5 April 2019 April 2024 Visual Studio 2012, Update 5
January 2018 January 2023 Visual Studio 2010 and earlier Out of support Out of
support
UPGRADE TODAY!
In conclusion:
* It’s time to complete your migration from Visual Studio 2012 to a later
supported version.
* It’s time to move off the Preview Channel of Visual Studio 2019 to Visual
Studio 2022 Preview.
* It’s time to move off Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7 to Visual Studio 2019
version 16.11 or Visual Studio 2022.
For the best Visual Studio experience, we recommend installing Visual Studio
2022 today.
If you have any questions about the upgrade or migration process or about our
support policy, just ask in the comments below!
Install Visual Studio 2022
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* Alexander Wurzinger February 10, 2022 10:33 am
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>>We recommend users migrate to either the Visual Studio 2019 Release Channel
or to Visual Studio 2022 Preview to stay secure and receive the latest
feature updates.
Isn’t VS2019 Release + VS2019 Preview the same right now?
Also you can change from VS2019 Release to Preview, but not back, at least
not without reinstall, so if you have a VS2019 Preview installed the only
thing you can do is to uninstall and install a Release version (or VS2022
Preview)?
* Paul Chapman February 11, 2022 9:29 am
collapse this comment
Thank you for the questions. We’re ending updates to Visual Studio 2019
Preview after April 2022; after that point Preview will be frozen and all
updates will go only to Visual Studio 2019 Release.
Yes, unfortunately with Visual Studio 2019 there isn’t a way to switch
between the Channels (we’ve added this feature to Visual Studio 2022, and
are working on enhancements to it).
Our recommendation would be to either install Visual Studio 2022 Preview
(if you want to continue receiving early feature updates), or to install
Visual Studio 2019 Release, and then uninstall Visual Studio 2019 Preview.
This will reduce install time as components that are shared won’t need to
be re-installed.
* Denis Proshutinskii February 10, 2022 9:21 pm
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There’s 1 thing I miss from VS2019 – Concurrency Visualizer. Hope it will be
available in VS2022 soon
* Nik Karpinsky February 11, 2022 9:49 am
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Yep, it is coming. I just got the build updated and we are testing
everything. Hopefully we have it out the door in a week or two, you can get
updates on it at:
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Please-Support-Concurrency-Visualizer-in/1566380
* Nik Karpinsky February 16, 2022 11:33 am
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And it’s live! You can get the VS2022 version here
* David Fiedler February 17, 2022 2:31 am
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“We’re sorry, the page you requested cannot be found!”
* Nik Karpinsky February 17, 2022 9:56 am
collapse this comment
Doh! Sorry about that, I forgot to hit the “make public” button. Should
be fixed now.
* David Fiedler February 19, 2022 6:02 am
collapse this comment
Thanks
* Michael Ober February 11, 2022 7:34 am
collapse this comment
Looking at the VS 2017 and VS 2019 end of support dates explains why I always
skip a version.
* CHENG HUP UNG February 13, 2022 10:19 pm
collapse this comment
Microsoft RDLC Report Designer is missing in VS2022.
All of our existing projects are being affected, this is the reason we are
still hanging on to VS2019.
Besides, not only us, a lot of of developers and projects are being affected
base on Developer Community:-
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/microsoft-rdlc-report-designer-in-2022/1494593
* Leslie Richardson February 14, 2022 10:47 am
collapse this comment
Thanks for the feedback! The RDLC extension is one of our top extensions
we’re trying to prioritize for VS 2022 migration, and while I don’t have a
release date on my end right now, we’re currently working with the
respective owners to make it happen soon.
* john-papachristos March 28, 2022 4:46 pm
collapse this comment
I’ve been wondering about .NET support for Visual Studio 2019. As older
versions of .NET Core and .NET go out of support, and I understand that
Visual Studio 2019 will not support later versions (.NET 6 and up), does that
mean we should not be using Visual Studio 2019 to develop .NET applications
after May 2022 and .NET Core applications after December 2022? Even though
the end of life for Visual Studio 2019 is a few more years down the track? It
seems that if you want to develop application using Visual Studio in .NET
after 2022, then we have to move to Visual Studio 2022.
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