Visual Studio Community 2022 — Offline Installer

Creating and Managing a Visual Studio Community 2022 Offline Installer

  • Open an elevated Command Prompt (Run as administrator).
  • Create a layout folder and start the download using the bootstrapper with workload/component selection:

    It was a typical Monday morning for Rohan, a software developer working on a team to build a complex enterprise-level application. He had just received a new laptop, and his first task was to set up his development environment. Rohan knew that his company had a strict internet policy, and he wouldn't be able to download any software from the internet directly. His team lead had informed him that the company had a limited internet bandwidth, and they had to rely on offline installers for software installations. visual studio community 2022 offline installer

    You first need a tiny "bootstrapper" file that tells Microsoft what to download. Creating and Managing a Visual Studio Community 2022

    The Verdict

    Once the download is finished, move the c:\vslayout folder to your offline machine via a USB drive or internal network. Open the folder on the offline machine. Run the vs_community.exe file from inside that folder. Open an elevated Command Prompt (Run as administrator)