Visual Studio 2017 Installation Using Offline Installer

Mukesh Kumar

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Nos Waree4y ago
Nice post. Your article really has detailed information about the visual studio 2017 offline installer. Keep wring articles like this.
Christopher Weber4y ago
Typical MS STUPIDITY... There are options for Web, C#, C++ native, Office... AND THEY DON'T TELL YOU WHAT THEY ARE. You are just supposed to have been born knowing their command line args such as "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktop", "Component.GitHub.VisualStudio", Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop, and likely DOZENS of others. I don't suppose this is documented anywhere... Like someplace easy to find and reference?? Didn't think so.
Rohit7y ago
Downloaded full Visual Studio Community 2017 v15.9.4 on 28-Dec-2018. Total size is around 43.6 GB. It took around 5-6 hours on 5 MB/S Internet plan.
- Francisco Zarabozo6y ago
  It took 47 minutes on a 350 mbps optical fiber connection. It should've taken no more than 5 minutes, but the installer makes a request for each single file, and there's a lot of files.
On Ray Aries8y ago
Is there a way to download specific file what we want? example : workload - Universal windows platform deveploment.
Sushant Shinde9y ago
Hello Sir This is Sushant here, i am facing an issue while installing VS2017.I have successfully Downloaded all the required files but when i run the Setup file it gives an error as follows : the source layout directory is too long,the layout directory name should be less than 80 characters.Please help me out of this.Thanks.
Ehsan Sajjad9y ago
When installing workload for mobile cross platform it still goes for downloading packages, is there a way to download all workloads offline or specific one only offline for xamarin for example, the Android SDKs etc ?
Manav Pandya9y ago
Thanks for sharing ........

Recently, Microsoft launched Visual Studio 2017 on the 20th Anniversary of Visual Studio IDE. It launched on Wednesday, March 7, 2017. Visual Studio 2017 is the most awaited software from Microsoft. The first version of Visual Studio IDE was released on March 19, 1997, which was Visual Studio 97. At that point in time, C# didn't exist and Visual Basic, Visual C++, etc. languages were part of this great tool.

We can download Visual Studio 2017 from the Visual Studio official site. Compared to earlier versions, it has three different versions these are Community, Professional, and Enterprise. If we do not have Microsoft subscriptions for Visual Studio, then we can go with the Visual Studio Community Version, which is free and most of the features are covered. We can install it and start coding right away.

Visual Studio Community Version

It also includes .NET Core features and cross-platform development but this is only if we have installed all the required packages. Even if we do not have a license for Visual Studio 2017 Community, we can start the development, using this with limited features.

However, if we require all the features of Visual Studio 2017, then we need to purchase and download it from the Visual Studio site. We can also just compare the features among all these three different products of Visual Studio. Free trial is also available for these two products (Professional and Enterprise).

Before installation, we must consider our hardware and prerequisites. As per the Visual Studio official Website, the prerequisites given below should be fulfilled.

Visual Studio official Website

Once we feel the required prerequisites are available, we can start the installation.

Create Offline Installer

Visual Studio 2015 or previous versions of Visual Studio come with installation packages, where the whole package is downloaded when we download any of these versions. Nevertheless, this time Visual Studio is one step ahead and makes our installation very easy. Sometimes, we do not need the whole installation package, we only want to download those packages, which are required for our development, which is a custom installation package.

Thus, when we download Visual Studio 2017, it only provides vs_enterprise.exe (every version has a different name). When we run this EXE file, then it will ask us to choose the installation packages and based on our selection, it will download all these packages online and install them.

Even if we can install it online, sometimes we need an Offline Installer. We can make Offline Installer use the downloaded EXE file to follow these steps. First, open the command prompt and type the command given below.

vs_enterprise.exe --layout "C:\Visual Studio 2017" --lang en-US

Command

We can change our download location in place of “C:\Visual Studio 2017” and make changes in the language. When we press enter, it will take a few minutes to start downloading packages, so be patient and it will start downloading, as shown below.

Download location

After downloading completes, we will find the Offline Installer with whole packages in the provided location, as shown below.

Offline Installer

Installation

Go to that location, where we have downloaded Visual Studio 2017, and run the setup (in my case, it is vs_enterprise.exe).

vs_enterprise.exe for Visual Studio Enterprise.
vs_professional.exe for Visual Studio Professional.
vs_community.exe for Visual Studio Community.

It will start the installation in a few moments and show the first screen, as shown below.

Start the installation

Now, it will show the Products Window, where all the available products will be shown. We can see the image given below, where all the listed products show Visual Studio IDE. We can install any of them but if we do not have the license or subscription, then it's preferable to move on with Visual Studio Community 2017.

In our case, we have installed the Enterprise Edition of Visual Studio 2017. The first screen will show where we can select the required components for the installation, which can be our .NET Desktop Development, ASP.NET and Web Development, Azure Development, Node.js development, etc. We just need to select those components, which we want to install.

Web Development

If we are interested in installing the packages individually, then go to the Individual Components tab, choose the required individual components, and click on install the button at the bottom. It will start the installation of Visual Studio 2017 with the selected components.

Visual Studio 2017

After installation, we can also modify our components. It means that we can also install further components or uninstall installed components. It is all up to us. If we have forgotten something to install, just click on the modify button as shown below and add/remove the components.

If you wish to complete the installation process, just click the Launch button. It will proceed with a sign-in process to validate our license of Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise version.

Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise version

After clicking the Launch button, it will ask you to sign in with a Visual Studio account to verify your license. Once you finish the sign-in process with the valid credentials, then it will redirect to the first screen of Visual Studio 2017.

Visual Studio

At last, it will show the first screen of Visual Studio 2017.

First screen

Conclusion

Therefore, today we have seen how to install Visual Studio 2017 with Offline Installer by following simple steps.

I hope this post will help you. Please put your feedback, using comments, which will help me to improve the next post. If you have any doubt, please ask your query in the comment section and if you like this post, please share it with your friends. Thanks.