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y0j0
y0j0

Reputation: 3592

Visual Studio 15 vs 2015 + Update 2

I can choose from two possibilities of new Visual Studio installation

But I'm a little bit confused what do these versions mean.

Upvotes: 17

Views: 4952

Answers (2)

Kevin Heidt
Kevin Heidt

Reputation: 1155

If you ever get confused about what internal number your version of Visual Studio is, look at the path that your Visual Studio shortcut targets. For example, Visual Studio 2015 targets "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe".

Upvotes: 2

Jon Skeet
Jon Skeet

Reputation: 1499770

Visual Studio 15 is the version after Visual Studio 2015. The "15" is effectively the mostly-internal version number, and the "2015" is the branding version. Yes, it's very confusing.

Other internal/branding mappings:

  • Visual Studio 97 / "Boston"
  • Visual Studio 6.0 / "Aspen"
  • Visual Studio 7 / "Rainier" => Visual Studio .NET 2002
  • Visual Studio 7.1 / "Everett" => Visual Studio .NET 2003
  • Visual Studio 8 / "Whidbey" => Visual Studio 2005
  • Visual Studio 9 / "Orcas" => Visual Studio 2008
  • Visual Studio 10 / "Rosario" => Visual Studio 2010
  • Visual Studio 11 => Visual Studio 2012
  • Visual Studio 12 => Visual Studio 2013
  • Visual Studio 14 => Visual Studio 2015

Unless you want to experiment with prerelease software (which can be fun, don't get me wrong) you want to install Visual Studio 2015... and update 2 is the most recent release of that.

We don't yet know what the branded name of Visual Studio 15 will be - mostly because we don't know when it's going to be released.

Upvotes: 28

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