If you want to do an offline update from VS17.12 to 17.13 , you can follow below steps:

  1. Update the layout to a specific version of the product.
  • Go to the Visual Studio 2022 Release History page and download a particular fixed version bootstrapper(e.g vs_Enterprise17.13.0), copy it into your layout, and use it to update the layout to that exact version specified in the bootstrapper.
  • Run the --layout command in an elevated prompt to download the latest packages into your layout.
vs_enterprise.exe --layout c:\VSLayout
  1. Update your Visual Studio 2022 by running the Visual Studio Installer > Update or you can also use the following command:
vs_enterprise.exe update --noWeb --quiet --installpath "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise"

Update

The easiest and fastest way to update your offline Visual Studio instances: using a minimal offline layout.

Do i have to download the entire VS Layout package everytime if there is an version update?

Unlike a full Visual Studio layout, a minimal layout only contains the updated packages, so it is always smaller and faster to generate and deploy.

1.Generating a minimal layout.

MinimalLayout.exe generate --targetLocation c:\VSLayout\ --productIds Microsoft.VisualStudio.Product.Enterprise --baseVersion 17.12.5 --targetVersion 17.13.0  --languages en-US

2.Update the Visual Studio Installer

vs_enterprise.exe --quiet --update --offline C:\VSLayout\vs_installer.opc

3.Update the Visual Studio application

vs_enterprise.exe update --noWeb --quiet --installpath "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise"

Docs Referred:

Update the layout to a specific version of the product

Update Visual Studio from a layout

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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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If you want to do an offline update from VS17.12 to 17.13 , you can follow below steps:

  1. Update the layout to a specific version of the product.
  • Go to the Visual Studio 2022 Release History page and download a particular fixed version bootstrapper(e.g vs_Enterprise17.13.0), copy it into your layout, and use it to update the layout to that exact version specified in the bootstrapper.
  • Run the --layout command in an elevated prompt to download the latest packages into your layout.
vs_enterprise.exe --layout c:\VSLayout
  1. Update your Visual Studio 2022 by running the Visual Studio Installer > Update or you can also use the following command:
vs_enterprise.exe update --noWeb --quiet --installpath "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise"

Update

The easiest and fastest way to update your offline Visual Studio instances: using a minimal offline layout.

Do i have to download the entire VS Layout package everytime if there is an version update?

Unlike a full Visual Studio layout, a minimal layout only contains the updated packages, so it is always smaller and faster to generate and deploy.

1.Generating a minimal layout.

MinimalLayout.exe generate --targetLocation c:\VSLayout\ --productIds Microsoft.VisualStudio.Product.Enterprise --baseVersion 17.12.5 --targetVersion 17.13.0  --languages en-US

2.Update the Visual Studio Installer

vs_enterprise.exe --quiet --update --offline C:\VSLayout\vs_installer.opc

3.Update the Visual Studio application

vs_enterprise.exe update --noWeb --quiet --installpath "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise"

Docs Referred:

Update the layout to a specific version of the product

Update Visual Studio from a layout

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Microsoft has a handy post that details what you need to do. Essentially, at the command line on the computer with internet access, execute:

vs_enterprise.exe --layout c:\localVSlayout

Replace c:\localVsLayout with where you want to dump the files. It's going to be big! You may need to change vs_enterprise.exe with the correct executable name for your version of Visual Studio.

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Hello there,

I remember theres always an offline installer (about 22-25gb) to install visual studio completely.

2017 and 2019 had this type of installers, does anyone knows if VS 2022 offline installer is currently available?

Thank you

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October 26, 2022 - Following this document for C++ development it suggests to create a local layout with Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop workload. The resulting offline installer is about 3GB which is fine. From the script the offline installer is called with C:\CppBuildTools\vs_setup.exe --quiet --nocache --wait --in C:\CppBuildTools\CustomInstall.json command and the bellow is the content of CustomInstall.json file. { "installChannelUri": ".\\ChannelManifest.json", "channelUri": "https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/channel", "installCatalogUri": ".\\Catalog.json", "channelId": "VisualStudio.17.Release", "productId": "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Product.Community", "includeRecommended": true, "quiet": true, "norestart": true, "addProductLang": [ "en-US" ], "add": [ "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop", "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.ATLMFC" ] }
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