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omatai
omatai

Reputation: 3728

Install previous version of Visual Studio Community

Judging by this discussion, a lot of people really want/need the ability to either roll back a Visual Studio Community 2019 upgrade, or preferably, be able to install a specific release of it.

Is there any bypass/shortcut/similar method to achieve this? It appears Microsoft stubbornly refuse to support it.

For the record, the upgrade of MS Visual Studio Community 2019 from whichever version I downloaded on March 20 to the latest (16.6.2) at first broke my project builds, and when I uninstalled and reinstalled, it refused to load any project at all. Similar results were seen late yesterday on a colleague's laptop before he took today off :-(

Providing an "upgrade" button without a very clear warning about the impossibility of going backwards is not going to win Microsoft any friends...

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1343

Answers (1)

omatai
omatai

Reputation: 3728

I wish there were a better answer than this, but in the end I:

  • uninstalled and reinstalled VS 2019 Community - problem persisted (no project would load, not even third party projects)
  • repaired VS 2019 Community - problem persisted
  • ran the VS Install Cleanup Tool, then reinstalled VS 2019 Community - problem persisted
  • ran the Windows 8.1 SDK setup to validate that cleanup had not corrupted the SDK I installed around the time of my upgrade - problem persisted
  • ran VS 2019 Community with the /Log option to see if I could understand what was happening: problem disappeared

Subsequently, running VS 2019 without the /Log option, everything is "back to normal". This makes no sense at all - recorded only for posterity.

Upvotes: 2

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