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Installing .NET AI Templates in Visual Studio 2022

January 06, 2026 , ,
Visual Studio 2022 now have .NET AI templates available. This is a huge integration as developers can now easily build AI apps with the help of these templates. However, for some unknown reason after updating visual studio 2022 to latest version which is v17.8 or above, many developers reported unavailability of these new AI templates in visual studio 2022. So, don't worry, you have come to right place.

Today, I shall demonstrate how you can install the .NET AI Templates in Visual Studio 2022 manually. 

 


Prerequisites:

Before proceeding any further in this article, following are some of the many prerequisites for this article:
  1. Update to Visual Studio 2022 v17.8 or above.
  2. Knowledge Windows Command Prompt.

Let's begin now.

1) First step is to update or install visual studio 2022 version 17.8 or above because it is the minimum requirement for AI coding in visual studio.

 
2) In the next step, open windows command prompt as administrator and then type below command and hit enter i.e.

 

 
3)  Wait for installation to successfully complete, so that, all the supported .NET AI templates get installed for your visual studio 2022.
 
 

 
4) Now, open visual studio 2022 and click on create projects. From the eight most drop-down menu you will see AI option. Select this option and you can now see that .NET AI templates for visual studio 2022 have now installed successfully and you can start building your .NET AI projects.


  

Conclusion

In this article, you will learn to manually install .NET AI Templates for Visual Studio 2022. You must update or install visual studio version 17.8 or above because it is the minimum requirement for creating AI apps using visual studio.
 

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