Thursday, May 26, 2022

Testing against old versions of Visual Studio

[This is mostly for my own reference, so I can find the link again quickly in the future]

Partial screen shot of the Visual Studio Installer showing multiple versions installed on the same machine

If developing Visual Studio extensions, it can sometimes be useful (and necessary) to have different versions of Visual Studio installed.

Previously I achieved this by having preview and non-preview versions installed and being careful about how and when I updated them to newer versions.

However, I recently had to also test against a version older than I had installed on any of my machines.

Well, it seems the lovely people on the Visual Studio team already have this scenario covered.

It's possible to get older versions of VS that don't prompt for updates. This allows the installation of multiple versions on the same machine without having to worry about updating them.

Get them from:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-history#fixed-version-bootstrappers



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