Please read Visual Studio 2026 system requirements before installing:
Supported Operating Systems
Visual Studio is supported on the following 64-bit operating systems:
- Windows 11 — supported editions: Home, Pro, Pro Education, Pro for Workstations, Enterprise, and Education (including ARM64 editions).
- Windows 10 — supported editions: Home, Professional, Education, and Enterprise.
- Windows Server — Standard and Datacenter editions of:
- 2025
- 2022
- 2019
Not supported:
- 32-bit and ARM32 operating systems.
- Windows in S mode, IoT editions, LTSC, Windows 10 Team Edition.
- Non-persistent VM environments without a full Windows OS.
- Windows containers (except for Build Tools).
Hardware
Processor:
- ARM64 or AMD64/x64 processor.
- Quad-core or better recommended.
- Runs best with 16 cores or more.
Memory (RAM):
- Minimum: 4 GB.
- Recommended: 16 GB for typical professional workloads; 64 GB for best performance.
Windows 365 (Cloud PC):
- Minimum: 2 vCPU and 8 GB RAM.
- Recommended: 4 vCPU and 16 GB RAM.
Disk space:
- Minimum: 2.5 GB up to 210 GB depending on installed features.
- Typical installation: 20–50 GB free space.
- SSD recommended for best performance.
Display:
- Video card supporting at least WXGA (1366 × 768) resolution.
- Best experience at 1920 × 1080 or higher
Here are the release notes of the latest version.
Download Visual Studio 2026
You can download any of the below editions of Visual Studio 2026 directly from Microsoft servers:
| Version | Web Installer | ISO |
|---|---|---|
| Visual Studio Community 2026 | Download | Download |
| Visual Studio Professional 2026 | Download | Download |
| Visual Studio Enterprise 2026 | Download | Download |
Download Visual Studio 2026 ISO
| 1 | Download the Visual Studio Web Installer executable file from the above links to a drive on your local machine. |
| 2 | Run Visual Studio setup executable file with the following arguments from a command prompt: For example, if you downloaded the community edition web installer vs_community.exe --layout "download-path" --lang "download-language"
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| 3 | Example A: Install all languagesvs_community.exe --layout C:\vs2026 |
| 4 | Example B: Install one languagevs_community.exe --layout C:\vs2026 --lang en-US |
| 5 | Example C: Install multiple languagesvs_community.exe --layout C:\vs2026 --lang en-US de-DE ja-JP |
Currently, there is no such direct ISO available at this moment. Only option that we have is just to download the web installer and do a layout to grab the offline installation media.
Country codes
| ISO Code | Language |
|---|---|
| cs-CZ | Czech |
| de-DE | German |
| en-US | English |
| es-ES | Spanish |
| fr-FR | French |
| it-IT | Italian |
| ja-JP | Japanese |
| ko-KR | Korean |
| pl-PL | Polish |
| pt-BR | Portuguese - Brazil |
| ru-RU | Russian |
| tr-TR | Turkish |
| zh-CN | Chinese - Simplified |
| zh-TW | Chinese - Traditional |
Update Visual Studio 2026 Installation Layout
As updates become available for Visual Studio 2026, you can run the --layout command again, pointing to the same layout folder, to ensure that the folder contains the latest components. Only those components that have been updated since the last time --layout was run will be downloaded.
