Monday, 19 August 2013

How to get older updates for Visual Studio 2012

How to get older updates for Visual Studio 2012

I'm using Visual Studio 2012 for C++ desktop development. My company
writes libraries for other developers, and because some customers are
understandably loathe to upgrade once they settle on a development
platform, we need to support developers at various update (née "service
pack") levels.
It seems that Microsoft is (equally understandably) pushing everyone to
get all the service packs when they get any, since when I ask to download
Update 1 here, it pushes me to Update 3, which includes Updates 1 & 2.
I have now archived Update 3 (using the /layout flag on the installer),
but I don't see a way to get just Update 1 or Update 2, and yet that is
exactly what I need. How can I get these updates?

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