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I have a Resharper 9x license and it is only compatible up to MS VS Community 2015 edition. I tried to download the 2015 version from Microsoft but their website stubbornly wants me to have 2017, only. Can someone please provide me a url to the 2015 edition? Or, explain how to navigate Microsoft's site to obtain the 2015 edition?

Update on solution

1) vs_community.exe is the download filename for any version, 2015, 2017, etc. You will not know which version it is until you click the .exe. You will then see the version in the title of the installer.

2) There is a url trick to get the version that you want.

https://www.visualstudio.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=Community&rel=15

...change the rel=15 to rel=17 etc

Or use the links provided in the answer below

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You can use these links to download Visual Studio 2015

And for anyone in the future who might be looking for the other editions here are the links for them as well:

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    Thanks for the iso, as my company firewall prevents the download in the Visual studio web installer. – Timo Oct 23 '17 at 14:10
  • Wow, they're offering an ISO of the 2015 community edition? They claim that they don't. – Jez Nov 12 '17 at 18:05
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    Life saver. I was searching for at least an hour before I found this. MS has wiped the earth of VS2015 downloads. I'm surprised these links still work. – andrew Jan 07 '18 at 09:34
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    Thank you sir, for being more effective than the moronic conglomerate that is Microsoft. – AER Feb 23 '18 at 02:49
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    The web installer of the community version now automatically updates and offers to install versions of VS2017. The ISO link still seems to work. – Edwin Chua May 15 '18 at 02:21
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    very very helpful. Can't find a link to download it from anywhere else and got it from here. – Abinash Dash Jan 30 '20 at 13:20
  • Nice. If you go the "official" route through the download page of the latest release and go for the older versions you have to login (or create an account and then login) so that you get to the actual download. This reminds me of how the Qt Company screwed things up with the mandatory account thing for downloading the Qt SDK through their official installer (luckily we have all the binaries provided by so many Linux distros out there). – rbaleksandar Apr 05 '20 at 14:38
  • How to check md5sum of that iso file? – KcFnMi Jun 04 '20 at 10:49
  • I'm glad I got VS Enterprise 2015 from the college store before I graduated. I still use it. I don't care if it's no longer officially supported. – eckman May 07 '21 at 02:47
  • @rbaleksandar Gheez! [Qt](https://www.qt.io/pricing) Designer is $990/yr. Qt for Application Development (desktop and mobile) is $3,950/yr. ‎Embarcadero [Rad Studio](https://www.embarcadero.com/app-development-tools-store/rad-studio) Pro is $2,599 once, then $599/yr. Rad Studio Enterprise is $4,599 once, then $1,199/yr. The Architect Edition is $6,599, then $2,183.yr. Most of these tool developers have become _rent seekers_ . They expect developers to shore up their quarterly reports with a constant revenue stream. – eckman May 07 '21 at 03:03
  • Visual Studio 2019 Enterprise is $3,000/yr for a [subscription](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing/#tab-b8953f16f0b68f60f18) (_rent_). A [perpetual](https://www.componentsource.com/product/microsoft-visual-studio-enterprise/prices) license is $8,931, then $1,639/yr for a MSDN subscription. – eckman May 07 '21 at 03:21
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    Thank you! The Web Installer of the professional edition didn't work for me (keeps complaining about missing packages), but the ISO is downloading. – Jaap Apr 08 '22 at 12:51
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    I get this error: "a setup package is either missing or damaged" – Rony Tesler Sep 30 '22 at 21:26
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    you can download the ISO instead to avoid that error @RonyTesler, I got that too previously – Wisang Jati Anggoro Mar 16 '23 at 05:38
  • Unfortunately, while using the custom install method the community web installer at least doesn't appear to include .NET desktop environment (C#), though it does web and mobile tools. The closest option for C# is Xamarin for mobile development. However, I'm testing out the default install method (using ISO, as mentioned above). – Ben May 15 '23 at 05:59
  • After many failed attempts from other versions of the ISO, the pro link here worked for me. – Tim Jun 21 '23 at 13:54
  • Community edition links didn't work for me. Looks like the web installer points to inexisting urls and the iso points to vs 2015 Shell. Removing the last query parameter in the iso URL, downloaded the actual VS 2015 iso installer for me. (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=615448) – Dmitry Aug 17 '23 at 11:34
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The "official" way to get the vs2015 is to go to https://my.visualstudio.com/ ; join the " Visual Studio Dev Essentials" and then search the relevant file to download https://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual%20Studio%202015%20with%20Update%203

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    Sure, you can, but the "correct answer" is the one with 95% of the upvotes. – Josh Feb 23 '19 at 13:43
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    This hasn't worked for a long time and is NOT the "correct" answer if you're actually trying to help other developers. The search comes up empty, even if you've joined "Visual Studio Dev Essentials". – Mark Wilbur May 13 '19 at 22:01
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    I can't do that since it keeps saying that I have to rejoin Dev Essentials. The correct answer, however helped me. – Ilian Zapryanov May 31 '19 at 20:24