When you have multiple Visual Studio instances, the Visual Studio Installer only lets you update them one by one. This is inconvenient, as each download and installation can take a significant amount of time. Daniel Cazzulino created a .NET tool to manage Visual Studio instances. It lets you update all Visual Studio instances on your machine with a single command:
Shell
dotnet tool update -g dotnet-vs
vs update --all
Here are the available options for the vs update command:
Usage: vs update [options] [--save=]
--rel, --release Update release version
--pre, --preview Update preview version
--int, --internal Update internal (aka 'dogfood') version
--sku[=VALUE] Edition, one of [e|ent|enterprise], [p|pro|
professional], [c|com|community], [b|build|
buildtools] or [t|test|testagent]
--filter[=VALUE] Expression to filter VS instances. E.g. `x => x.
InstanceId = '123'`
--first Update first matching instance.
--all Update all instances.
dotnet-vs includes other handy commands for managing Visual Studio instances. For example, you can use it to install specific components into an existing instance.
Edit May 9th, 2022: The Visual Studio Installer now supports updating all instances at once:
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