How to check the versions of Visual Studio installed?

You may have installed multiple versions of Visual Studio on your computer. How to get the information of all the installed instances of Visual Studio? You can run the following command:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vswhere -all -products *

It will list detailed information about every Visual Studio instance on your system including

instanceId
installDate
installationName
installationPath
installationVersion
productId
productPath
state
isComplete
isLaunchable
isPrerelease
isRebootRequired
displayName
description
channelId
channelUri
enginePath
installedChannelId
installedChannelUri
releaseNotes
resolvedInstallationPath
thirdPartyNotices
updateDate
catalog_buildBranch
catalog_buildVersion
catalog_id
catalog_localBuild
catalog_manifestName
catalog_manifestType
catalog_productDisplayVersion
catalog_productLine
catalog_productLineVersion
catalog_productMilestone
catalog_productMilestoneIsPreRelease
catalog_productName
catalog_productPatchVersion
catalog_productPreReleaseMilestoneSuffix
catalog_productSemanticVersion
catalog_requiredEngineVersion
properties_campaignId
properties_canceled
properties_channelManifestId
properties_nickname
properties_setupEngineFilePath

Note that Visual Studio Build Tools and Visual Studio Community count as distinct Visual Studio installation instances although they may be installed together when you install some version of VS.

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