Visual Studio 2019 Community Offline Installer
Viviano Dean
The main workaround has been to sign into a Microsoft account. However, that workaround doesn't work for computers that are not allowed to access the internet. I am having that issue for a server that is not allowed to go out to the internet for the necessary sign-in.
The above is all just my opinion on what you should do.
As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it. Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.
This issue falls under the "we've done it like this for years." The client somehow got VS 2015 installed on the server and assumed that was the standard. If necessary I suppose I can try to talk them out of it since our Systems team also asked the question you did.
We run VS2017 on a few clients, all 100% disconnected from the internet. Downloading the package is a bit of a pain, getting all the dependencies together; but once done, we haven't had issues of "phone home" activation.
Thanks for your reply, Andy. I don't recall exactly, but basically I downloaded VS 2017 Community Edition to my local computer, ran some steps to get the offline files, then copied all of that to the server. It is possibly I didn't do the download correctly, or that I downloaded the wrong files.
From a cost perspective, it will probably be cheaper to install visual studio on the developer machines rather than getting enterprise/professional licenses for all of the developers so they can use it on the server.
I would still be pushing for getting this uninstalled from the server. Visual studio is not very light on resources, so I wouldn't want visual studio running on any server (test or live) if I could avoid it. I imagine there are some use cases where having it on there is required, but if it isn't required, I'd much rather bog down my local machine than bog down a server.
I just got back from Kenya and South Africa and had a great time speaking at NexTech Africa and the Microsoft Tech Summit in Johannesburg. I also got to hang out with my wife's family a bunch. While I was there I was reminded (as one is when one travels) how spoiled many of us with being always connected. Depending on how far out of town you get the quality of internet varies. There's not just bandwidth issues but also issues of latency and reliability.
Visual Studio generally - and Visual Studio 2017 specifically - has an online installer and if you lose connectivity during the installation you can run into problems. However, they haven't got an ISO available for downloading for legal reasons. They can't package up the Android Installer from Google, for example, into an ISO. The user needs to download certain things themselves dynamically.
One nice aspect of this system is that you can update a "layout" in place. As updates become available for Visual Studio 2017 (RC or otherwise), you can run the --layout command again, pointing to the same layout folder, to ensure that the folder contains the latest components. Only those components that have been updated since the last time --layout was run will be downloaded.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Make sure that your file is named "vs_[SKU].exe." Sometimes you'll end up with a file like vs_community__198521760.1486960229.exe and you'll want to rename it to vs_community.exe for offline to work.
They are the root certs needed to verify the setup application (the stuff installed under ProgramFiles\Visual Studio\2017\Installer) and the catalog (a json file that lists of all the VS components that could be installed by setup). Most computers will already have these root certs. But users on Win7 machine may not. Once you install these certs, setup will be able to authenticate the content being installed is trusted. You should not remove them after installing them.
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yeah this should be possible, but you are going to need an internet connection to download the Visual studio Build Tool installer, then with the installer you should be able to download all the necessary files for a offline installation, by either using command prompt or Powershell. Once you have one of them open jeas to the directory where you downloaded the installers and use
to create a local cache of the files needed. Then once you have this done you should be able to install the Visual C++ build tools from this package without an internet connection by heading to the folder where you have stored the offline installation files and run:
Hi @elavarasan16, could you please send me the version of your Visual Studio 2015? The minimum supported version of SonarLint for VS2015 is 14.0.25420.00. Other than that it does not have any prerequisites apart from .NET Framework 4.6 and should install fine on VS2015 Enterprise (I am using it right now).
Hi @elavarasan16.
Have a look at this post on StackOverflow about installing extensions offline. It suggests that the VSIX installer is blocking the installation because it cannot validate the certificate.
Thanks for the help. I have tried installing the offline installer on a connected machine and i am getting the same error. I extracted the Visual studio installer and looked into extension.vsixmanifest file. Under , i see only Community edition. Could that be the issue? Should we add Enterprise here? will it help? Please check.
I already have users banging down my door to get Visual Studio installed on their Macs. I let 1 user download it to be a guinea pig. The installation prompted 3 or 4 times for admin credentials for several different components. It's kinda similar to XCode's extra stuff it wants to install unless you've got that installation scripted (I do). Has anyone found a way to install Visual Studio yet through Casper?
I also just remembered that the download from Microsoft is a dmg that contains a 64MB installer app. The full installation is almost 600MB when completed. It looks like the installer is one of those "downloader installers" where it pulls most if not all of the files from the internet.
Then I clicked on the OS X menu under "Xamarin Studio" and chose the Product Version. As I recall, if you choose the Universal Installer, that is the downloader app I'm trying to avoid.
After a 223MB download I opened the DMG and copied the Xamarin Studio.app to /Applications and launched it. It alerted me that I needed to also install Mono. I went to -project.com/download/ and downloaded it for Mac. Mono was a 364MB .pkg file (a 1 GB installation). I ran the installer then launched Xamarin Studio again and it appeared to launch without complaining about permissions or downloading modules. Now I don't know what happens next after devs start digging in to write their code. I'm about to package up the Xamarin Studio.app and put that and the Mono pkg into Self Service and have one of the devs give it a try.
Also, this happened today -apps-visual-studio-2017/ I'm not a developer so I really don't know what the differences are. I rely on our devs to tell me what they need, but if I am presented with 2 different solutions and one is deployable and the other is not, I'll lean toward the deployable one as long as the devs say they can use it.
Since Microsoft hasn't provided an offline installer, I haven't touched it again. I do check on the status of an offline installer every now and then, but it is still vaporware. Luckily I was able to get our devs to understand that they don't NEED this yet... they just want to play with it for now until the need actually arises. If the need does arise before Microsoft makes this a deployable product, I'm going to have to push back and tell management that MS hasn't provided me with a tool we can use. It is absolutely impractical to even attempt to manually install this on multiple computers. And I shudder to think of what the update process will consist of.
Hello @BOBW we just received a call from our IT faculty and they are wanting to have this installed in their Mac labs. Any chance you can share how you were able to get Visual Studio installed? You can email me direct if it is easier for you. mcon...@madisoncollege.edu
From here you will need to just install the pkg files you need but we needed Unity3d so I installed everything
I am pretty sure from memory the installer you need for Visual Studio is 2.dmg
I copied the Visual Studio app from here to Applications folder
Capture Visual Studio using composer and save to external
start pkg keeper again and run any software updates, pkg keeper will grab these and place them on desktop
save externally
return to snapshot again
add new items to script or replace existing after update
runs script to install everything and test
XAMARIN PLugin VS:
Download Visual Studio installer
run pkgkeeper install visual studio and allow pkgkeeper to capture downloads to desktop
save externally
download JDK
Save externally
Just stumbled onto this thread, we are new to jamf and i am trying to deploy Unity to some Lab machines. The instructions that unity provides are so bad and I keep trying to deploy. I have gotten to the part where i have downloaded all the packages but cant get them to deploy/licence correctly. I was wondering if you are still deploying this in your environment and could possibly lend a hand?
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