Make your own Visual Studio 2019 Offline Installer

Microsoft allows downloading Visual Studio for offline installation. For making offline version command line parameters are required. First, download the visual studio web installer setup package from Microsoft’s website then follow the given instructions.

Visual Studio 2019 Web Installers Download Link

You can download your desired edition from the below links. Among those links only Community edition is free other editions require license keys. Though they allow a trial period for experiencing the paid features for free.

After downloading the executable file follow the following instructions.

For .NET web and .NET desktop development

Rename the downloaded visual studio installer file then open Command prompt (CMD) at which path contains the executable then execute the following command.

vs_community.exe –layout c:\vslayout –add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktop –add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NetWeb –add Component.GitHub.VisualStudio –includeOptional –lang en-US

Then all required files will be downloaded into C:\vslayout folder.

For C ++ desktop developmen

vs_community.exe --layout c:\vslayout --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop --includeRecommended --lang en-US

For Complete feature download

It will require more time and space approximately 50 GB. Time will depend on your internet bandwidth.

vs_community.exe –layout c:\vslayout –add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop –includeRecommended –lang en-US

So you have full files which are required for installing visual studio 2019. Now you need to find setup exe and run that for starting Visual Studio installation. If you fetch any problems with this procedure please feel free to Ask Questions.

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