✅ Any official source for VS2017 community ver?
Hello guys, I am looking for resource of VS2017 community version, but couldn't find from MS website... Does anyone know if there still exists official resource for that?
Many thanks.
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Thanks, I tried this a short while ago and could see the link for Enterprise and Professional versions. But do you know where can I find the community version for 2017? Thanks a lot.
huh youre right
microsoft doesnt seem to let you download older versions
yeah you can
they just obscure it
little weasels
oh does that actually work
nope it downloads 2022 for me
?
weird
oh it worked
just tested in a fresh vm
just tried too, and got a community ver installer wow. Guess I need to try install to see how it works further.
nice
Thank you for the link. Would you mind share a bit about how did you get that link?
google it
Because it looks like the one that you would be redirected to after the installer download starts haha.
download visual studio community 2017
hit
https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmagic/visual-studio-2017-download.html
and the link makes sense
cause rel=15 is 2017
(but dont trust random links from random websites like these)
ofc not, it's a microsoft link
in this case its the official microsoft domain
yeah im just talking in general
Yup, that's fascinating.
yeah i agree
agree too, thx for reminding
if u type rel=16 u get 2019
and 17 2022
which is the current
yup that sounds pretty convenient too.
btw I heard 2019 and 2022 all have much higher disk space occupation issue for project files, have you happen to hear about that? Bcoz that's the reason I choose 2017 here.
nah
for the project file itself?
maybe the visual studio itself
.net creates that, not visual studio
the problem with 2017 is the support of .net
which i think goes to .net core 2
also vs 2017 is much slower, and doesnt support a lot of stuff
and that's not even supported anymore
you want .net 6 which is LTS
at least
id definitely sacrifice a bit of disk space to have a much better dev experience
I heard the profile becomes much bigger than 2017 and what's more, there will be much more frequent disk operations during compiling that would produce 1TB IO cost for a simple project per day...
no
where did u read that
ive never ever seen that
and that not related to vs
.net does the compiling
1TB IO you destroy your disk in a week
lol
well, it could be a bug in vs
oh... bcoz I read it from some small knowledge sharing site and got bit scared...
but ive never seen it
just download community 2022 latest version
an issue that huge would get fixed quickly too
it has 0 bugs like that
runs nicely
and you get .net 6 and 7
also my entire vs 2022 installation is 6.6 GB
which includes .net desktop, uwp, c++ desktop, asp.net, and unity
yeah another thing to note is that all visul studios are the same, so community = enterprise just less features, but the base is the same
imagine those bugs in enterprise versions
lol
OK guess I will try from 2022 now. The experience I got here are much more reliable than other sources ofc.
i can tell you I had to move to rider for a bit cause visual studio had some massive problems, but they figured them out and it runs beautifully now
and i'm back and i'm having 0 issues
rider is also another good option
ive never tried it, but i hear very good things about it
and jetbrains has a great reputation
oh I have been using PyCharm for short time, but don't know much about rider. Guess am quite outdated regarding jetbrains productions lol.
it's the same
just .net
they are all basically the same
So rider can do most of what VS can, on jetbrains IDE written by java?
rider is actually written in c#
Because I had the impression that all jetbrains IDEs are written with java, but not 100% sure though...
and some visual basic i think
the uis are
i think
the beckend not always
don't know 100%
as far as i know
Oh but still sounds impressive. Hope I can try rider in parallel with VS to feel different styles. But the development experience on the two platforms are somehow pretty consistent I guess?
And I feel I learned a lot today. Really appreciate your sharing. Thank you again @Henkypenky @Cybertreit
np
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