The Comprehensive Guide to the Visual Studio Community Edition Offline Installer

Creating an Offline Installer on a USB Drive

subfolder within your layout directory to avoid security errors. Run Installer : From the offline machine, open Command Prompt as an Administrator , navigate to the layout folder, and run: vs_community.exe --noweb Use code with caution. Copied to clipboard

Command for VS 2017 Offline Installer:

The offline installer is about 1.5 GB, so it might take some time to download.

Part 7: Visual Studio Community 2019 vs. 2022 vs. 2017

The instructions above are consistent for Visual Studio 2022 (64-bit IDE). However, legacy projects may require older versions.

Run the Installer: Use the following command from the layout folder on the offline machine:vs_community.exe --noWeb