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I have Visual Studio 2022 Preview installed and would like to replace it with the release version that went live yesterday.

When I started VS and checked for updates, it let me upgrade from the previous release candidate to Preview 1.0, but not the actual release version.

Is it possible at all to replace the preview with a release version, or do I have to install them side by side (and delete the preview)?

This is the version I have now: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 (64-bit) - Preview Version 17.1.0 Preview 1.0

Berend
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You don't have to reinstall anything. Just switch the update channel in Visual Studio Installer (More -> Update settings):

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antarct
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    I only get Preview in the Update Channel. I'm afraid that, because I'm already ahead of Current, there's no way to go back without uninstalling. – Ismael Nov 17 '21 at 08:01
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    Same here i see only the Preview option in the Update channel – Hidayath Dec 15 '21 at 16:57
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    I can confirm the 'Current' update channel is only available when the 'Current' version is ahead of your installed 'Preview' version of Visual Studio – Tom Lint Mar 14 '22 at 15:24
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    Why this is not the accepted answer? Worked for me thank you. – Soulcry Mar 31 '22 at 12:11
  • Not working for me, no option for going back to Current/Release/Stable channel – iroel Oct 06 '22 at 07:59
  • Seems like I'll have to disable automatic updates and wait for the release version to catch up? – chtenb Jul 10 '23 at 14:45
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You have to reinstall. Preview is basically an Insider build. It will continue to update as pre-release even after 2022 releases.

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    I didn't need to reinstall, did exactly what @antarct described and it turned my preview version (17.0.0) into the release version (17.0.1), no more 'preview' tags in the splashscreen or about. – SuperDre Nov 30 '21 at 10:25
  • Now you can choose to update directly in the installer. You can try to edit your answer to help more people. – Jiale Xue - MSFT Dec 23 '21 at 06:39
  • I had to reinstall. But my version was lagging behind a lot. – Xan-Kun Clark-Davis Jan 22 '22 at 09:22
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    @JialeXue-MSFT is there anything I have to do to enable this? No matter whether I run the installer from Visual Studio's update prompt or freshly downloaded from the Microsoft web site, I cannot choose any Update Channel other than 'Preview' – Tom Lint Feb 10 '22 at 11:12
  • @TomLint Post a separate question with a screenshot showing your question. Try the update [link below.](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/update-visual-studio?view=vs-2022) – Jiale Xue - MSFT Feb 11 '22 at 01:31
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No need to reinstall or to uninstall. Just download the installer of the channel you want and start it. Once the installer finished updating the installer check again the solution from @antarct and it should show you the option to change.

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I was able to switch the Update channel, but the context menu still says "Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 Preview" and the application still lives in "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Preview".

I can't live with that rubbish. These may be minor, but in what other areas was the upgrade done so poorly?

I'll be uninstalling and reinstalling as soon as I can find the time to waste on something I shouldn't need to do.

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You don't need to reinstall. From my experience, you just need to run the installer NOT from inside visual studio, but from the start menu.

I had switched to preview from release channel for my installation. When I first saw an update notification in visual studio, I opened the installer via the notification and only preview channel was there in the channel list. Then I decided to try the installer from the start menu before hopelessly re-installing as suggested here, the usual full channel list appeared. Then I went back to visual studio and opened the installer from there again, and the channel list was refreshed in there, too. It seems like a metadata refresh problem. Or, maybe the channel data was updated while I was tinkering with it, IDK.

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You can install the release version also if Preview is already installed

Open "VS Installer" --> "Available" --> "Install"

After you selected the version you want to install, you can change the install path and download it

VS Installer

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