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How to update Visual Studio 2017 to VS2019

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Saturday, April 20, 2019 1:42 PM | 1 vote

i DO NOT want do download another VS, ant way to update from VS2017 to VS2019 DIRECTLY

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Saturday, April 20, 2019 2:25 PM âś…Answered | 2 votes

No.

Visual Studio 2019 is on a different release channel to Visual Studio 2017, this allows for both IDEs to be installed side by side. This means that you cannot convert a 2017 install into a 2019 install.

Although, with how much has changed between versions, you would have to download an entire instance of Visual Studio even if you were allowed to update 2017 to 2019, so you wouldn't save anything more than the time required to uninstall 2017.

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Tuesday, April 23, 2019 6:01 AM

Hi DWw_

Sorry for this convenience.

As Darren Rowe says, the release channel of visual studio 2019 is different with visual studio 2107. There is not an appropriate way to upgrade visual studio from 2017 to 2019 currently. 

If the above reply is helpful, please mark it as answer, it will be beneficial to other community members which have the similar question.

Best Regards,

Dylan

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Tuesday, April 23, 2019 1:51 PM

Thanks 


Thursday, April 25, 2019 10:32 AM

Hi DWw_,

If you have any issues about VS IDE in the future, please feel free to contact us.

Regards,

Dylan

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Wednesday, October 23, 2019 2:26 PM

To my mind this is not primarily a technical problem but a business problem.

uninstall VS2017 and install 2019 and send an upgrade invoice


Saturday, January 4, 2020 8:05 PM

I have Visual Studio Community 2015, and want to upgrade to Visual Studio Community 2019.

It appears the only path is to uninstall 2015, then install 2019.

If I do that, will existing projects and settings be maintained?  Is there anything I should keep in mind to prevent breakage and disruption in the update?

Thanks!


Saturday, January 4, 2020 11:45 PM

Delete 2017 first then download 2019.

n.Wright


Tuesday, March 17, 2020 2:24 PM

VS 2107? I want it! How do I download that ? :))