Visual Studio 2010 download/ISO

Question

Would anyone have a Visual Studio 2010 ISO download by chance? We can't officially do this through Microsoft but was hoping someone had one laying around.

I'm working on upgrading around 15 small to large Visual Basic projects for a client from .NET Framework 2.0 to 4.8.1. However, they are all configured with Visual Studio 2010 so I cannot currently open any of them.

This will at least let me open them to begin the upgrade, thanks in advance!

Answer 1

you probably want visual studio 2015 as its the last to support .net 2 and probably has most complete migration aids. as this is a licensed product, you need a visual studio subscription:

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/

as you have to migrate so far, it probably easier to create new 4.8.1 projects, and add the old source. if nuget was used, you will need to add current version of the packages if they exist, if not you will need a replacement.

note: .net 2.0 made use of the GAC, so dependent libraries were often directly installed in the GAC as opposed to being nuget packages. you will need to find the nuget equivalents if possible.

Answer 2

If you meet the license requirements to use VS2015 Community you can find a link to download the offline (iso) installer for VS2015 Community with Update 3 in the answer at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1426278/error-on-visual-studio-2015-installation. The referenced link to SO also includes iso downloads for the Professional and Enterprise versions but those would need a paid license after any Trial Period expires.

Answer 3

VS 2010 is out-of-support since a long time, at least therefore there is no public download for available.

You would need a paid MSDN subscribtion to be able download it.