how can I install the visual studio community version 17.7.4

Question

Hello everyone,

I am a student at Niagara College Canada, currently pursuing a diploma in Computer Programming. For an educational project, my professor has specifically asked us to use Visual Studio Community version 17.7.4.

Unfortunately, I cannot find this version available for download on the official Visual Studio website or any other platform. I would greatly appreciate it if anyone could guide me on how to access and install this particular version.

If it’s no longer available, is there an alternative way to use this version or its equivalent features? Any advice, suggestions, or links would be incredibly helpful!

Thank you in advance for your support.

Best regards,
Prashanta Poudel

Answer 1

I gather this might be available for MSDN subscribers - but tbh, I'd expect that it would be up to your professor to ensure that you have proper access to the required software

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hth

Marcin

Answer 2

Hello @PrashantaPoudel ,

Normally, you need a specific version of Visual Studio bootstrapper file to install the specific version of Visual Studio.

For example(specific VS Enterprise bootstrapper files):

However, Visual Studio Community edition is supported only on the Current Channel, which means only the latest edition(VS Community) is supported or available for downloading(Community edition support).

So, only the evergreen bootstrapper file of Visual Studio Community 2022 is available. You will always download and install the latest version of VS Community 2022.

If it’s no longer available, is there an alternative way to use this version or its equivalent features?

You may consider using other versions of VS(VS Professional, VS Enterprise or the latest version of VS Community). By the way, you can evaluate a free trial of VS Professional or VS Enterprise for 30 days and sign in to extend the trial period to 90 days(Extend a trial version or update a license).

As the later/latest version of VS Community improves the features in previous versions, adds new features and fixes the known issues, I’m not sure is there any particular reason that your professor specifies the version 17.7.4? Why not directly use the latest one(17.12.4)? Is there any issue that he/she found maybe?

Kind Regards,

Tianyu

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