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Feature: The Art of the Offline Install – Securing Visual Studio 2017 in an Era of Digital Downloads
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Part 5: Installing Visual Studio 2017 from the Offline ISO
Once you have your ISO (or simply copied the layout folder to the target machine): visual studio 2017 offline installer iso
For further reading, refer to Microsoft’s official documentation on “Creating an offline layout for Visual Studio 2017” (available via the Wayback Machine, as Microsoft has archived most 2017 content). Happy coding, even without the cloud. Feature: The Art of the Offline Install –
How to make an offline installer for VS2017 - Scott Hanselman Mount the ISO (double-click or right-click → Mount)
Step 4: Install from the ISO
On the target machine (offline or air-gapped):
- Mount the ISO (double-click or right-click → Mount).
- Open a Command Prompt as Administrator inside the mounted drive letter (e.g.,
E:\). - Run the installer from the layout:
To customize workloads, add component IDs. For example, to include .NET desktop and C++ development:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\Tools\vsdevcmd" -show
To download only specific workloads (recommended to save space):vs_community.exe --layout C:\vs2017offline --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktop --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NetWeb --lang en-US