How to: Install a Specific Release of Visual Studio (i.e. Visual Studio 2015 with only the original Update 2 without any further Update 2-era updates or Update 3))
- If you have VS2015 with Update 3, you must completely uninstall it and reboot your PC. (You may have to use the VisualStudioUninstaller Release 2 worked for me where the latest did not)
- Download the VS2015 with Update 3 websetup from VisualStudio.com (example: vs_community_ENU.exe) It does not matter that it is the Update 3, we are going to force it to install Update 2 and not 3 in the next step
- “then append the .exe file with additional command-line parameters”. For the VS2015 community edition it would be (enter the following all as one line from a administrative command prompt):
vs_community_ENU.exe /OverrideFeedURI http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/6/B/06BB0C5C-C767-4250-91DA-AB463377597E/20160405.3/enu/feed.xml
Original instructions found at MSDN