Visual Studio Community Edition Offline Installer

This is the gold standard if you want to create an offline installer package on a USB flash drive or a network share to deploy to multiple computers.

Once the download finishes, move the C:\VSLayout folder to your target machine using a network share or an external hard drive. Open the local layout folder on the target machine. visual studio community edition offline installer

| Step | Command example | |---|---| | Create full layout | vs_Community.exe --layout D:\VS_Offline --lang en-US | | Create selective layout | vs_Community.exe --layout D:\VS_Offline --add --lang en-US | | Update layout | vs_Community.exe --layout D:\VS_Offline --lang en-US | | Install from layout | D:\VS_Offline\vs_setup.exe | This is the gold standard if you want

For a more tailored offline installer, developers can append arguments to this command. For instance, adding --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktop ensures the layout only downloads the components necessary for .NET desktop development, significantly reducing the download size compared to the full suite of workloads. | Step | Command example | |---|---| |

The process is as follows:

To download only specific workloads (using English as the primary language), append the --add and --lang arguments:

To download specific workloads (e.g., .NET Desktop and Web):