doc: update to Visual Studio 2026 manual install#61655
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Note, I've also submitted #61652 for the WinGet install In addition I'm looking at the Boxstarter installation instructions. This is proving to be tricky, as it's a legacy dependency and has multi-layered issues. |
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Current situation
BUILDING > Windows > Manual install contains instructions to install Visual Studio 2022.
Visual Studio 2026 is now the latest version and the default version shown on https://visualstudio.microsoft.com
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mainandv25.xare compatible with building under either Visual Studio 2022 or 2026.The workload "C++ build tools" listed for Build Tools does not exist under this name. "Desktop development with C++" is the right workload to be selected with all editions for Visual Studio 2022 or 2026.
Available links
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/ is the generic link, which defaults to Visual Studio 2026 and allows access to older versions
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2026 for Build Tools for Visual Studio 2026
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-history#evergreen-bootstrappers links to Visual Studio 2022 Evergreen bootstrappers with the notice:
This includes the currently used link https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vs_buildtools.exe for Visual Studio Build Tools 2022
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