Unlike free Community editions, Visual Studio Professional 2019 requires a valid license. Here is how to get the bootstrapper:
Upon launching the IDE, the product key was entered under File > Account Settings. The license was validated successfully against the Microsoft Volume Licensing server.
if (-NOT ([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal] [Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] "Administrator")) Write-Host "Please run as Administrator!" -ForegroundColor Red exit 1 install visual studio professional 2019
After selecting workloads and locations:
You will see a green progress bar and messages like "Installing Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Roslyn.Compiler…" After selecting workloads and locations:
Do not restart your PC during installation even if prompted by Windows Update – the Visual Studio installer handles reboots gracefully at the very end.
Pick specific SDKs, compilers, libraries, and tools without installing full workloads. You will see a green progress bar and
# Simply run as Administrator
Install-VS2019.bat
.\Install-VS2019.ps1 -InstallPath "D:\VS2019\Professional"