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Windows 7 Support ends 14-Jan-2020; Office 365: Compatible. The objective of Office 365 is for the end user to automatically upgrade to the newest version when notified. See System Requirements for Office. Microsoft says 'For the best experience, use the latest version of any operating system.' Office 2019: Not Compatible. See System Requirements for Office.

Visual Studio 2019 contains many new and exciting features and IDE productivity enhancements tosupport Windows app development, cross-platform mobile development, Azure development, web and cloud development,and more. To try out Visual Studio 2019, see Visual Studio 2019 Downloads.For more information about everything that's new in this release, see theVisual Studio 2019 release notes andWhat's New in Visual Studio 2019.

Can I install Microsoft Office 2019 on Windows 7 or 8? Office 2019 is restricted to Windows 10, Windows Server 2019, and Windows 10 LTSC 2019. Business versions of Office 2019 are also only available in bulk licensing form, with a minimum of a 5 license purchase. We've recently deployed a 2019 Exchange environment and in all our testing, Windows 7 will fail autodiscovery and ultimately drop the connections with Outlook & Exchange even on machines that had an existing connection to 2013 Exchange. All editions of Office 2013 and above work fine on Windows 10, however nothing on Windows 7 other than OWA. The following versions of Office have been fully tested and are supported on Windows 10. They will still be installed on your computer after the upgrade to Windows 10 is complete. Office 365 (Version 16) Office 2019 (Version 16) Office 2016 (Version 16) Office 2013 (Version 15).

For Visual Studio Code, see Visual Studio Code FAQ.
For Visual Studio 2019 for Mac, see Visual Studio for Mac Platform Targeting and Compatibility.
For Visual Studio 2019 for Mac release notes.

Installation

You can install and use Visual Studio 2019 alongsideprevious versions of Visual Studio, including Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2013, and Visual Studio 2012.

Download

Click a button to download the latest version of Visual Studio 2019. For instructions on installing and updating Visual Studio 2019, see theUpdate Visual Studio 2019 to the most recent release.Also, see instructions on how to install offline.

Note: Installation package size will vary depending on your current Visual Studio configuration.

System Requirements

For information on the system requirements for installing and running the Visual Studio 2019 family of products,including Team Foundation Server 2019, see the Visual Studio 2019 System Requirement page andVisual Studio for Mac Product Family System Requirements.

Feedback and Support

For support, or to submit feedback on Visual Studio, see:

Upgrade Projects to Visual Studio 2019

When following the supported upgrade paths, your Visual Studio source, solutions, and project files will continueto work; however, you should expect to make some changes to sources. While we cannot guarantee binary compatibilitybetween releases, we will do our best to document significant changes to assist you with updates.

Note

For details on how to migrate your projects to Visual Studio 2019, see Porting, Migrating, and Upgrading Visual Studio Projects.

Platform Targeting

Visual Studio provides cutting-edge tools and technologies to create apps that take advantage of thelatest platform capabilities, whether Windows, Android, iOS, or Linux. Visual Studio 2019 also targetsearlier platforms so you can create new apps or modernize existing apps that execute on earlier versionsof Windows while leveraging the enhanced development tools, quality enablement, and team collaborationcapabilities in Visual Studio 2019. For more information, see Managing references in aproject and Visual Studio Multi-TargetingOverview.

Visual Studio 2019 Support for Windows Development

The following table explains the Microsoft Windows platforms for which you can build apps by using Visual Studio 2019.

Notes

• For support information regarding Microsoft operating systems, see Microsoft Support Lifecycle and Windows 10 Release Information.
• For support information on Microsoft .NET Framework, see .NET Framework Support Lifecycle FAQand .NET Framework System Requirements.
• Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC edition, Windows 10 S and Windows 10 Team Edition are not supported for development.You may use Visual Studio 2019 to build apps that run on Windows 10 LTSC, Windows 10 S and Windows 10 Team Edition. Remote debuging is supported on LTSC.
• Universal Windows app development for all target platforms is available when Visual Studio is installed on Windows 10.
• Universal Windows apps can be built from the command line when using Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2016. UWP development—includingdesigning, editing, and local debugging—is not available on Windows Server. You may deploy these apps to Windows server and debug them remotely.
• Unity, and Xamarin can also be used for cross-platform development of Universal Windows Apps on Windows 10.

Visual Studio 2019 Support for .NET Development

Visual Studio 2019 supports development of apps that use any of the .NET implementations. Among the workloads and project types, you can find support for.NET Framework, .NET Core, Mono, .NET Native for Universal Windows Platform (UWP), C#, F#, and Visual Basic. Visual Studio 2019 supports the following .NET implementations:

• .NET Framework versions 4.8, 4.7.2, 4.7.1, 4.7, 4.6.2, 4.6.1, 4.6, 4.5.2, 4.5.1, 4.5, and 4.0
• .NET Core 3.1, 3.0, 2.2, 2.1, and 1.1.

Note

For more information on each of these implementations, and on the common API specification .NET Standard, see .NET architectural components.

Visual Studio 2019 Support for Android Development

Visual Studio 2019 enables you to build native Android apps using Xamarin and C# or using C++. The Visual Studio Tools for Unity andthe Unreal Engine enable Android game development. You can also use Visual Studio for Macto build Android apps using a Mac.

You can use Visual Studio setup to easily obtain the Android SDK and Android API levels 19, 21, 22, and 23.You can download additional API levels separately using the Android SDK Manager.You can also use Visual Studio Setup to obtain the Android Native Development Kit (R10E), Java SE Development Kit, and Apache Ant.

Office 2019 Compatibility Windows 7

For more information, see Android development with Visual Studio andMobile App Development.

Note

For information on .NET development for Android, see .NET architectural components.

Visual Studio 2019 Support for iOS Development

Visual Studio 2019 enables you to build and debug apps for iOS by using C++, Unity, or Xamarinand a Mac configured for iOS development when using remotebuild, vcremote, the Visual Studio Tools for Unity,or the Xamarin Mac Agent. Xamarin supports iOS 7 and higher, and requires OS X 10.10 'Yosemite' or higher.You can also use Visual Studio for Mac to build iOS apps using a Mac.

Note

For more information, see Cross-platform mobile development in Visual Studio.For information on .NET development for iOS, see .NET architectural components.

Visual Studio 2019 Support for Linux Development

Visual Studio 2019 enables you to build and debug apps for Linux using C++, Python, and Node.js.Creating C++ apps for Linux requires theVisual C++ for Linux Development extension. Creating apps with Python orNode,js, requires that you enable remote debugging on the target Linux machine. You can also create, buildand remote debug .NET Core and ASP.NET Core applications for Linux using modern languages such as C#, VB and F#.

Note

For information on .NET development for Linux, see .NET architectural components.

• CentOS 7.1 and Oracle Linux 7.1
• Debian 8
• Fedora 23
• Linux Mint 17
• openSUSE 13.2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
• Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04

Note

For more information see https://dot.net/core.

Visual Studio 2019 Support for macOS Development

Visual Studio 2019 enables you to build console applications and ASP.NET applications that target macOS.However, debugging is not supported. For additional macOS development tools choices, try Visual StudioCode or Visual Studio for Mac. Visual Studio Code provides a streamlined,extensible developer tool experience for macOS. Visual Studio for Macprovides a feature-rich IDE that enables you to build native macOS apps, including ASP.NET, using C#.

Note

For information on .NET development forMacOS, see .NET architectural components.

Other Platforms and Technologies

Visual Studio 2019 also supports the following platforms and technologies. For more information, seehttps://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/features/.

• Apache Ant
• Azure web apps and connected services, including Azure Data Lake
• Docker
• PowerShell
• Web Development with ASP.NET, HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, or TypeScript

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Compatibility with Previous Releases

.NET Framework

.NET 4.7 is is a highly compatible in-place update of .NET 4, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, and 4.6.2.

Note

For more information, see the Migration Guide to the .NET Framework 4.7, 4.6, and 4.5.

Team Explorer, Azure DevOps Server, and Team Foundation Server

Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2019 will connect to Azure DevOps Server 2019, Team Foundation Server 2017,Team Foundation Server 2015, Team Foundation Server 2013, Team Foundation Server 2012, and Team Foundation Server 2010 SP1.

Silverlight

Silverlight projects are not supported in this version of Visual Studio. To maintain Silverlight applications,continue to use Visual Studio 2015.

Windows Store and Windows Phone apps

Projects for Windows Store 8.1 and 8.0, Windows 10 Mobile and Windows Phone are not supported in this release. Tomaintain these apps, continue to use Visual Studio 2015. To maintain Windows 10 Mobile projects, use Visual Studio 2017.To maintain Windows Phone 7.x projects, use Visual Studio 2012.

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