Visual Studio 2017 Community Installer ((hot)) Jun 2026

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: Built-in source control support for GitHub and Azure DevOps . visual studio 2017 community installer

The installer will present a list of "Workloads." Microsoft’s official branding at the time was ,

Since Visual Studio 2017 is an older version, you cannot find it on the main Microsoft Visual Studio landing page easily. You must access the legacy archives. visual studio 2017 community installer

You need to download the "bootstrapper" executable. This is a small file (usually a few MB) that initiates the download of the actual installation files.