Has Microsoft removed Visual Studio 2012 Express links for good?

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JustAMartin picture JustAMartin · Oct 18, 2013 · Viewed 39.5k times · Source

Recently I've been trying to download Visual Studio 2012 Express, but I failed to find it. One day the links were there, and the next day all of them were replaced by 2013 editions. Even Google and Microsoft's own search in their Downloads site find 2012 editions, but when I open links I see that they are 2013 now.

Why did Microsoft do that? I find it strange that they removed 2012 links, especially because 2010 links are still there.

See for yourself: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads

Where do I get Visual Studio 2012 Express now? We have a bunch of projects in TFS which we don't want to convert to 2013 yet.

Answer

5uperdan picture 5uperdan · Oct 18, 2013

for windows desktop? This should work

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=34673

Latest edit:

Old versions of visual studio are available here now

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/

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