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Visual Studio Express 2017 for Desktop standalone/offline installer

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Tuesday, October 17, 2017 3:57 PM

 I was able to find installer for VS Express 2017 at VS Express 2017 location but it's a web installer. Where can I find an offline/ISO installer for the same so I don't have to download it for each install I do.

I know /layout switch worked for older VS installer which would download the whole install as a ISO. But this one doesn't support it.

Please let me know if there is a different way to get the standalone/offline installer.

Thanks

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Wednesday, October 18, 2017 2:39 AM âś…Answered | 2 votes

Hi arm007,

Thank you for posting in MSDN forum.

For your question, although there is no offline/ISO image for VS 2017 provided in Microsoft download page.

If you want to install offline because your internet connection is unavailable or unreliable, see Install Visual Studio 2017 on low bandwidth or unreliable network environments. You can use the command line to create a local cache of the files you need to complete an offline install. This process replaces the ISO files available for previous versions.

In addition, please see Use Command-Line Parameters to Install Visual Studio 2017 page  to control or customize the installation. And, for a list of workload and component IDs for other products, see Visual Studio 2017 Workload and Component IDs page. I believe the customize downloads way would also save you much disk space.

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Wednesday, October 18, 2017 6:40 AM | 3 votes

Hi arm007,

You can create an offline installer of Visual Studio 2017 (Community, Pro).

  1. download web installer and save a specific folder (e.g. C:\temp)
        https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/?utm_source=mscom&utm_campaign=msdocs

  2. rename it as web_vs2017.exe
       i.e. C:\temp\web_vb2107.exe

  3. create a new folder for offline installer (e.g. C:\temp\offline_vs2017)

  4. run cmd.exe and move to C:\temp (CD C:\temp)

  5. input the below (please copy it and paste in command) and [Enter]:
       web_vs2017 --layout C:\temp\offline_vs2017
       
    That's all, but it will take a lot of time.

Regards,

Ashidacchi

Friday, October 20, 2017 5:17 PM

Thanks

Friday, October 20, 2017 5:17 PM

Thanks

Monday, December 11, 2017 9:01 PM

Thanks to Ashidacchi, I managed to make a guide on how I offline installed VSExpress2017 on Win7.

Visual Studio Express 2017 - Offline Installer + Win7 Install Instructions

Wednesday, January 3, 2018 9:04 PM

Thanks!

Friday, August 2, 2019 6:22 PM

Hi Ashidacchi & Conner.

Thanx for your instructions. They worked perfectly!

Would you please tell me where and how I can download the complete offline help install file for VS2017Experss or equivalent?

I spent the last 3 hours reading forums and blogs and MS web site pages to only find nothing.

Also, I already did an offline install of VS2017Express, so that works very well.

But I can't find any VS2017 Help install files in the giant installation directory, except for general MS help.

Please advise and thanx!

Cheers ... Chris