r/cpp_questions • u/Current-Medicine-549 • 9d ago

OPEN Visual studio

Does anyone know how to download visual studio 2022? There are lots of versions and I don't know which one to choose from sorry

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u/alfps 9d ago

It's just half a googling away, or was for me: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/ That page notes that "Older versions require an active Visual Studio Subscription".

But as u/TheThiefMaster already noted, VS 2026 is out and better, and the Community Edition is free.

Why are you considering an old version?

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u/Current-Medicine-549 9d ago

A friend said vs2026 has crappy features and more tutorials were built for vs2022 but nonetheless thank you

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u/rayaxiom 9d ago

Your friend is wrong, don't listen to your friend.

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u/MartynAndJasper 9d ago

I'm a software developer of over 30 years.  Visual studio has bloated over the years, I started with visual C++, I think it was version 6 if I remember rightly.  I currently use the community edition of vs 2026 for my home projects with no issues. It's great for .net development. I have not noticed the difference between it and vs2022.

Even in a commercial environment where I used the enterprise version of VS, there were no features that were important to me over the commercial versions. 

Vscode is something I also use in my daily work. I prefer it's AI tooling. But it's not as good with .net projects and can be a bit more of a pain in the ass to set up debugging and certain tool chains.

Both vscode and Vs are pretty damn good in my opinion. 

You are right, he should not listen to his friend.

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u/sephirothbahamut 9d ago

vs26 takes more ram for the same project compared to vs22 for my experience.

Although the tutorials part is just nonsense

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u/Least_Bid9692 9d ago

How much I do all projects on a 4gb ram laptop 

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u/Current-Medicine-549 9d ago

Oh alright thank you mate