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Is the Offline Installation for Visual Studio 19/22 Broken for Anyone Else?
After the May update (16.11.47) of this year, I haven't been able to update our Visual Studio software. It seems that something has changed in the way Microsoft packages are fetched for offline use within the past couple of months. Interestingly, the… More on learn.microsoft.com
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How do I update the Visual Studio 2022 installer on an offline computer? Note that it refers to "setup.exe", not the VS main program
I had a problem removing an extension.click Modify Prompt: Failed to download installer update. Make sure you are connected to the network and try again.The installer version is 3.10.2157.28521 , The software version is is Visual Studio Community 2022… More on learn.microsoft.com
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How to download Visual studio 2019 offline installer - Stack Overflow
I am going to install visual studio 2019 community edition (latest version) in my PC.I have found link in google which has online installer (1376 KB) size.I would like to download offline installer... More on stackoverflow.com
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Is the VS 2022 offline installer available?
I burned VS2022 to a disc a few months ago so it's definitely possible Think this is what I followed https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/create-an-offline-installation-of-visual-studio?view=vs-2022 More on reddit.com
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How do I update the Visual Studio 2022 installer on an offline computer? Note that it refers to "setup.exe", not the VS main program - Microsoft Q&A
However, on part two, after you move the updated layout to the offline machine, you can choose to only update VS Installer, not VS. So, for part one, you can move the layout to the machine with network. Download the latest VS bootstrapper file from here: Downloads. Run the command like following: C:\XXXX\VisualStudioSetup.exe --layout C:\XXXX\MyLayout
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Microsoft no longer offers offline installers such as .ISO images of Visual Studio -- instead they have instructions of placing the burden on you to create an offline installer. You need to use the --layout command line argument and then run the downloaded installer.

  1. Download and Cache offline files:

    vs_community.exe --layout f:\vslayout.2019 --lang en-US
    
  2. Run from the cached directory

    f:
    cd \vslayout.2019
    vs_community.exe --noWeb
    

NOTE: Change drive F to match a drive on your system that has ~35 GB of free space for MSVC 2019. See the instructions for command line arguments to select just C++, .NET, etc. options.

You can get help on the command line arguments for the installer via:

vs_community --help

The relevant layout commands are:

command-line option     Description
--layout <dir>          Specifies a directory to create an offline install cache.
--lang <locales>        Used with --layout to prepare an offline install cache with resource packages with the specified language(s). See a full list of supported language-locales below.
--add <workload>        One or more workload or component IDs to add. The required components of the artifact are installed, but not the recommended or optional components. You can control additional components globally using --includeRecommended and/or --includeOptional. For finer-grained control, you can append ;includeRecommended or ;includeOptional to the ID (for example, --add Workload1;includeRecommended or --add Workload2;includeOptional).
                        Note: If --add is used, only the specified workloads and components and their dependencies are downloaded. If --add is not specified, all workloads and components are downloaded to the layout.
--includeRecommended    Includes the recommended components for any workloads that are installed, but not the optional components. The workloads are specified either with --allWorkloads or --add.
--includeOptional       Includes the recommended and optional components for any workloads being included in the layout. The workloads are specified with --add.
--keepLayoutVersion     Apply changes to the layout without updating the version of the layout.
--verify                Verify the contents of a layout. Any corrupt or missing files are listed.
--fix                   Verify the contents of a layout. If any files are found to be corrupt or missing, they are redownloaded. Internet access is required to fix a layout.
--clean <paths to catalogs>
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I have developed an application using VB.NET to dynamically generate batch (.bat) scripts that can be used to download Visual Studio 2017, 2019, and 2022. You can customize the script using the controls included in the application and download it to a targeted drive. You can download it here.

This is my contribution to the community.