The document points to an incorrect download link for Visual Studio 2022 #12529
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The document points to an incorrect download link for Visual Studio 2022. The link https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/ mentioned at https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/native-image/ will lead users to download Visual Studio 2026, not Visual Studio 2022.
The download link for Visual Studio 2022 appears to have been hidden by Microsoft.
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Perhaps we could directly ask users to use winget in PowerShell 7 to install Visual Studio 2022. This directly avoids downloading the wrong Visual Studio 2026.
winget install --id Microsoft.VisualStudio.2022.Community --source wingetAdditional context.
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This relates to https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-2026-is-here-faster-smarter-and-a-hit-with-early-adopters/ .
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I'm not sure if it's necessary to raise the minimum MSVC version supported by GraalVM CE to Visual Studio 2026, and I'm afraid I can't be of much help.