Why point this out now? Well with the imminent release of Visual Studio 2022 in early November you may be cautious to install the new version for concern of impacting your day to day version required for your job. There are currently 3 SKUs of Visual Studio for each version Community, Professional and Enterprise.

Not only does the 'channels' model allow for different major versions but also different SKUs of the same version to be installed side by side. although the one I can think of recently does not appear to be available on YouTube. This can be seen on various presentations etc. Publicly available channels for the released versions which are available to anybody but also internal Microsoft build channels for internal testing before release. The concept of 'release channels' started to be used at this point. This keeps each version separate but also allows for a lot more flexibility. The newer versions of Visual Studio allow for side by side installations. What is the Visual Studio Installer? It is a version install manager. Test out the new versions without impacting your day to day driver! #CodeNewbie #techtwitter #coding /CB5ChH4KdK- Adam Storr October 12, 2021 Just remember multiple versions of can be installed side by side these days. This is where the Visual Studio Installer come in. NET Core/.NET releases and wanting to hear feedback from the community a change had to come. This happened all the way up to Visual Studio 2015. It was hard to evaluate the newer options without impacting your day to day version.

This caused issues when you had to support multiple versions of. If you installed them in reverse order (newer to older) then your whole computer could become unstable and require rebuilding. NET Framework usually and it impacted your operating system. In previous versions of Visual Studio it was all or nothing. So how can you keep up to date with IDEs such as Visual Studio without impacting your day to day driver? If you have an Microsoft 365 license applications such as Word, Excel and Outlook will also update when there is a new version. It isn't just applications like web browsers but Office is also going that way. This is where a new release is pushed out and the next time the application is restarted the new version starts. With browsers such as Chrome, Firefox and Edge they have adopted the 'evergreen' approach. As we progress forward this is only going to get harder. Keeping up to date with development tooling and technologies is impossible with the speed of innovation and release.

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