Visual Studio Versions

Visual Studio 2022

link - learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/productinfo/vs-roadmap

Update 8 (Released: November 2023)
Version 17.8

Update 7 (Released: August 2023)
Version 17.7

Update 6 (Released: May 2023)
Version 17.6

Update 5 (Released: February 2023)
Version 17.5

Update 4 (Released: November 2022)
Version 17.4

Update 3 (Released: August 2022)
Version 17.3

Update 2 (Released: May 2022)
Version 17.2

Update 1 (Released: February 2022)
Version 17.1

Visual Studio 2019

Typescript 3.1

Update 11 (Released: August 2021)
Version 16.11

Update 10 (Released: May 2021)
Version 16.10

Update 9 (Released: March 2021)
Version 16.9

Update 8 (Released: November 2020)
Version 16.8
You must have version 16.8.0 in order to have .Net Core 5.0

Update 7 (Released: August 2020)
Version 16.7

Update 6 (Released: May 2020)
Version 16.6

Update 5 (Released: March 2020)
Version 16.5

Update 4 (Released: December 2019)
Version 16.4

Update 3 (Released: September 2019)
Version 16.3

Update 2 (Released: July 2019)
Version 16.2

Update 1 (Released: May 2019)
Version 16.1
Includes TypeScript 3.1 as default

Visual Studio 2005

Released: October 2005
Office Developer Tools has to installed separately
AddinLoader.dll is not signed
Document Level 2003 - Excel, Word (v2 runtime) (will not run in 2007)
Application Level 2003 - Outlook
Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime required to run solutions built using VSTO 2005
Outlook add-ins uses IDTExtensibility which effectively called the startup method.
Extensibility DLL not Included
Add-ins for Office require Extensibility.dll in order to run, which is not automatically included in the Setup project for Shared Add-ins.

Update 1 (Released: May 2006)
Also known as Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 SE
Incremental download for VSTO 2005 also known as Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System.
Focused on targeting Office 2007.
If you install this on top of Visual Studio 2005 professional, the 2003 document level functionality is unavailable.
If you install over the top of Visual Studio Team or Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005, the document level functionality is available.
Also the COM specific registration is also no longer required. There is no ProgID or CLSID registration under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
There is also no bootstrapper component VSTOEE.dll
When Office sees the manifest entry in the registry it loads the VSTOEE.dll which then loads the AddinLoader.dll
AddinLoader.dll is signed
The application manifest is identical to the one used for Outlook 2003 in VSTO 2005
Application level Add-in model was changed slightly
Ribbon Extensions 2007 - Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook
Outlook Form Regions 2007 - Outlook

Visual Studio 2003

Released: July 2004
Visual Studio Tools for Office (version 1.0) was a separate download.
Only included document level solutions for Office 2003 - Excel, Word (v1 runtime)

Visual Studio 2002

Released: June 2002
No Direct PIA Referencing
It is not possible to directly reference an assembly from the GAC in a project.
If you want to use an assembly from the GAC, you should drop the assemblies into a local folder and add a reference to that assembly.
Make sure the Copy Local property is set to False so the assembly is not copied to your local project folder.
At runtime the application will use the assemblies from the GAC.