Upgrading Flutter — Visual Studio not installed!!

Hamza Mateen
2 min readMay 23, 2022

Did you recently upgrade to Flutter 3.0 and get the following problem when running flutter doctor ?

[X] Visual Studio develop for Windows
Visual Studio not installed; this is necessary for Windows development. Download at https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/.
Please install the “Desktop development with C++” workload, including all of its default components.

To upgrade Flutter to the latest version on the stable branch, open the command prompt and run flutter upgrade.

Figure 1: Flutter doctor found 1 issue

Do not worry as this is a warning and not an error but still we are going to solve it.

If you go to the provided link and download the Visual Studio 2022 Community version from the home page, the problem will stay because it says specifically which workload to download. Figure 2 shows the problem that may arise when the wrong workload is downloaded.

Figure 2: Problem when wrong Visual Studio is downloaded

Please download the correct version from this link.
Visual Studio setup for desktop development with C++

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Hamza Mateen

Front-End Development Lead at MiFinity | All about Flutter Application Development & Life in Ireland. Flutter App Developer | Lecturer | Writer.