- Starting from visual studio 2017 Microsoft is no longer offering.ISO images. For the new visual studio 2017 you have to download vscommunity.exe from here and create an offline instalation folder: vscommunity.exe -layout c: vs2017offline.
- I am using windows 7 64 bit, I have downloaded 2012 vs.net ultimate (iso) from msdn subscribers downloads. I mount the iso and try to execute vsultimate.exe and it just seems to hang. I see the process in process viewer but nothing happens. I tried also the web installer (exe) and had the same problem.
We designed Visual Studio 2017 to work well in a variety of network and computer configurations. While we recommend that you try the Visual Studio web installer—which is a small file and allows you to stay current with all the latest fixes and features—we understand that you might not be able to.
We designed Visual Studio 2019 to work well in a variety of network and computer configurations. While we recommend that you try the Visual Studio web installer—which is a small file and allows you to stay current with all the latest fixes and features—we understand that you might not be able to.
For example, you might have an unreliable internet connection or one that has low bandwidth. If so, you have a few options: You can use the new 'Download all, then install' feature to download the files before you install, or you can use the command line to create a local cache of the files.
What is the difference between the two download file types. I would like to download the Win7 Update to a CD or DVD. Which file type should I download? Cheers, Astrocarr.
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If you are an enterprise administrator who wants to perform a deployment of Visual Studio to a network of client workstations that are firewalled from the internet, see our Create a network installation of Visual Studio and Install certificates required for Visual Studio offline installation pages.
Use the 'Download all, then install' feature
New in version 15.8: After you download the web installer, select the new Download all, then install option from the Visual Studio Installer. Then, continue with your installation.
After you download the web installer, select the new Download all, then install option from the Visual Studio Installer. Then, continue with your installation.
We designed the 'Download all, then install' feature so that you can download Visual Studio as a single installation for the same computer on which you downloaded it. That way, you can safely disconnect from the web before you install Visual Studio.
Important
Do not use the 'Download all, then install' feature to create an offline cache that you intend to transfer to another computer. It's not designed to work that way.
If you want to create an offline cache to install Visual Studio on another computer, see the Use the command line to create a local cache section of this page for information about how to create a local cache, or the Create a network installation of Visual Studio page for information about how to create a network cache.
Use the command line to create a local cache
After you download a small bootstrapper, use the command line to create a local cache. Then, use the local cache to install Visual Studio. (This process replaces the ISO files that were available for previous versions.)
Here's how.
Step 1 - Download the Visual Studio bootstrapper
You must have an internet connection to complete this step.
Start by downloading the Visual Studio bootstrapper for your chosen edition of Visual Studio. Your setup file—or bootstrapper—will match or be similar to one of the following.
| Edition | File |
|---|---|
| Visual Studio Community | vs_community.exe |
| Visual Studio Professional | vs_professional.exe |
| Visual Studio Enterprise | vs_enterprise.exe |
| Visual Studio Build Tools | vs_buildtools.exe |
| Edition | File |
|---|---|
| Visual Studio Community | vs_community.exe |
| Visual Studio Professional | vs_professional.exe |
| Visual Studio Enterprise | vs_enterprise.exe |
| Visual Studio Build Tools | vs_buildtools.exe |
Step 2 - Create a local install cache
You must have an internet connection to complete this step.
Important
If you install Visual Studio Community, you must activate it within 30 days of installation. This requires an internet connection.
Open a command prompt and use one of the commands from the following examples. The examples that are listed here assume that you're using the Community edition of Visual Studio; adjust the command as appropriate for your edition.
Tip
To prevent an error, make sure that your full installation path is less than 80 characters.
For .NET web and .NET desktop development, run:
For .NET desktop and Office development, run:
For C++ desktop development, run:
To create a complete local layout with all features (this will take a long time—we have lots of features!), run:
Note
A complete Visual Studio layout requires a minimum of 35 GB of disk space. For more information, see System requirements. And for information about how to create a layout with only the components you want to install, see Use command-line parameters to install Visual Studio.
Note
A complete Visual Studio layout requires a minimum of 35 GB of disk space. For more information, see System requirements. And for information about how to create a layout with only the components you want to install, see Use command-line parameters to install Visual Studio.
If you want to install a language other than English, change en-US to a locale from the List of language locales. Then, use the list of the components and workloads available to further customize your installation cache.
Step 3 - Install Visual Studio from the local cache
Tip
When you run from a local install cache, setup uses the local versions of each of these files. But if you select components during installation that aren't in the cache, setup attempts to download them from the internet.
To make sure that you install only the files that you've previously downloaded, use the same command-line options that you used to create the layout cache. For example, if you created a layout cache with the following command:
Then use this command to run the installation:
Note
If you get an error that a signature is invalid, you must install updated certificates. Open the Certificates folder in your offline cache. Double-click each of the certificate files, and then click through the Certificate Manager wizard. If you're asked for a password, leave it blank.
List of language locales
| Language-locale | Language |
|---|---|
| cs-CZ | Czech |
| de-DE | German |
| en-US | English |
| es-ES | Spanish |
| fr-FR | French |
| it-IT | Italian |
| ja-JP | Japanese |
| ko-KR | Korean |
| pl-PL | Polish |
| pt-BR | Portuguese - Brazil |
| ru-RU | Russian |
| tr-TR | Turkish |
| zh-CN | Chinese - Simplified |
| zh-TW | Chinese - Traditional |
Get support
Sometimes, things can go wrong. If your Visual Studio installation fails, see Troubleshoot Visual Studio installation and upgrade issues for step-by-step guidance.
We also offer a live chat (English only) support option for installation-related issues.
Here are a few more support options:
- Report product issues to us via the Report a Problem tool that appears both in the Visual Studio Installer and in the Visual Studio IDE.
- Suggest a feature, track product issues, and find answers in the Visual Studio Developer Community.
- Use your GitHub account to talk to us and other Visual Studio developers in the Visual Studio conversation in the Gitter community.
See also
When visiting Microsoft website to download VS2015 you can download a file of a few MB in size to install Visual Studio. When you open the file it acquires the files necessary from internet, but you can not choose where these files are stored. How can I download the entire installation of Visual Studio 2015 to perform an offline installation? For example, for multiple machines.
Mike de KlerkMike de Klerk15 Answers
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Starting from visual studio 2017 Microsoft is no longer offering .ISO images. For the new visual studio 2017 you have to download vs_community.exe from here and create an offline instalation folder:
vs_community.exe --layout c:vs2017offline
Then, in order to install from that folder you have to first install certificates from certificates in the download folder and then run the installation.
davidnrdavidnrDownload the file of website and start it with the commandline switch '/layout' (see msdn to download visual studio 2015 installer for offline installation). So C:vs_community.exe /layout for example. It asks for a location and the download begins.
EDIT:With the ISO version you still need internet connection to be able to install ALL the features. As pointed out by Augusto Barreto.
jxramosFor the Visual Studio Community 2015 with Update 2 you will have to click on Visual Studio 2015 on the left panel first, in order to display the Download options.
The SHA-1 values, in order to verify the integrity of the downloaded file, can be found here.
For the record, Microsoft Download Center has the ISO images for both Visual Studio Community 2015 and Visual Studio Community 2015 with Update 1.
It seems there are direct links and anyone could get it with a download manager.
References from here
Junior MJunior M
Iso Vs Exe Windows 7
That is direct link to ISO file
[https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=615448&clcid=0x409][1]
Even if you download the ISO files there will be lots of stuff not included in the installer which requires connection to internet when installing, for example:
- Emulators for Windows Mobile
- Windows 10 SDK
- Tools for Windows 10 Universal Apps
- GitHub Extension for Visual Studio and Git CLI
- C#/.NET Xamarin
- Visual C++ Mobile Development (iOS support)
- Joyent Node.js
- Java SE Development Kit
- Android SDK, NDK, and emulator
Perhaps some of them are not possible to include but it is annoying nonetheless.
I bumped into this page 'Download #VisualStudio 2015 (ISO + Web Installer)' (http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/2015/07/download-visualstudio-2015.html) and the ISO link (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=615448&clcid=0x409) provided in this page seems to be valid.
I am downloading the ISO at this very moment.
Edit:
Was able to download the ISO and burned into a DVD. Also tried installing (only C/C++) on a 64-bit Windows 10 laptop and everything seems to work except that the installer couldn't find and had to go to Internet to download packagesvcRedistD121033vcredist_x64.exe (although this file does exist in DVD and runnable).
You can download visual studio community edition with /layout switch.
But I prefer to use /layout with /NoRefresh for my low-speed internet connection that downloading long more than a day.
Every time that you run the installer it searches for new updates and if it finds updates, start downloading them and consume more time and more bandwidth!
I think the ISO version is smaller than the Layout method because the ISO version is just in English or whatever language it is that you choose, however the 'Layout' version is ALL of the languages available, So for example if the 'Layout' version downloads a 3gb file(English Version) it will download the same 3gb file in another language that you will not ever use wasting your downloads, time and all that other good stuff.
user1234433222user1234433222Go to https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs.aspx
Navigate to 'Visual studio downloads', select 'Visual studio 2015'
Next, choose format 'ISO'
If you are a MSDN subscriber follow the steps below:
Go to msdn.microsoft.com and sign in.
Go to Programs->Subscriptions->Overview
Click on Subscriber Access
Click on Product Keys ( Claim key as needed)
Select your Visual Studio Preference.
click the EXE drop down list, and select DVD. This will change it to an .ISO image.By default the web installer is selected,
Click green download button(approximately 7.12Gb)
note: I used a Virtual-CloneDrive-5.5 to mount this ISO and install
I was unable to find the direct download detailed in davidnr's post. You can download the ISO directly from the Microsoft Download Center here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46872. Click the download button and select the ISO.
ChrisChrisYou can download the ISO from https://beta.visualstudio.com/downloads/ (even if it has 'beta' in the URL you'll have the latest stable version. Currently update 3)
For the latest VS2015 sp3, the command line shoud be:
The following worked for me on a Windows 8.1 machine to download and prepare the setup folder, and then on a Windows 10 laptop to install:
- Go to https://my.visualstudio.com/downloads?q=visual%20studio%20community%202015
- Select “Visual Studio Community 2015 with Update 3” x64, English, DVD, and Download.
- Open the folder containing the download, which is called: en_visual_studio_community_2015_with_update_3_x86_x64_dvd_8923300.iso and its size is 7,617,847,296 bytes.
- Right-click on the file name: Mount
- On the mount folder, shift-right-click on an empty space: Open command window here
- On the command window: vs_community.exe /layout 'blah blah blah blah Visual Studio 2015Setup' (or whatever path you want; the Setup folder gets created).
- Follow the dialog box instructions.
When I did this, it remained for exactly two hours and ten secs in the Acquiring: Optional items. Don’t despair.
When it completed, the size of the Setup folder was 12.9 GB. Compare with the size of the .iso above.
Iso Vs Exe File
After completion, I succeeded on installing without a network connection, and that even though on completion I had got the following:
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