Offline installation

How to complete an offline installation of SonarQube for Visual Studio.

Typically, offline installations start with a download of SonarQube for IDE from your IDE’s Marketplace.

SonarQube for Visual Studio is available as an extension for Visual Studio versions 2022. SonarLint for Visual Studio is available for Visual Studio 2019 and 2017, but they are no longer supported.

If you don’t have access to your IDE’s Marketplace, the SonarQube for Visual Studio VSIX release files are available here.

Since March 1, 2022, SonarLint for Visual Studio 2017 has not been supported. After SonarLint for Visual Studio 8.0, no new features will be added to SonarLint for Visual Studio 2019. This means that there will not be any new updates to these versions.

Critical bugs will be addressed in SonarLint for Visual Studio 2019 for a period of 6 months after April, 2024. We encourage users to take advantage of the latest enhancements by updating to SonarQube for Visual Studio 2022.

Instructions

To install SonarQube for Visual Studio offline, you must first download the SonarQube for Visual Studio executable file from the Visual Studio Marketplace. Administrators can download the plugin and distribute the installer internally if needed.

1. Go to the Visual Studio marketplace and search for sonarqube.

2. Choose the SonarQube for Visual Studio version 2022. If you are using Visual Studio 2019, search for sonarlint instead; a SonarLint for Visual Studio 2019 is available, but it is no longer supported.

3. Select Download.

4. Once the file is on your disk, open it to launch the installation.

The extension will be installed after all instances of Visual Studio have been closed.