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We designed Visual Studio to work well in various computer configurations. The information on this page discusses how to create an offline installation package of files for installation on the local machine.
If you are an enterprise IT administrator who wants to perform a deployment of Visual Studio throughout a network of client workstations, or if you need to create an installation package of files to transfer to or install onto another machine, refer to our Visual Studio Administrators Guide, the create a network-based installation of Visual Studio page, and the deploy a layout onto a client machine documentation.
Sometimes online access is problematic. For example, you might have an unreliable internet connection or your internet connection might have low bandwidth. For situations like these, we've made additional methods available for acquiring Visual Studio. You can use the Download all, then install feature from the Visual Studio Installer to download an installation package on the local machine before you install it locally, or you can use the command line to create a local installation package to install locally later.
To download a local installation package, select the Download all, then install option in the dropdown at the bottom of the Workloads tab of the Visual Studio Installer. The purpose of this feature is to frontload the downloading of the Visual Studio packages onto the same computer that you plan on eventually installing Visual Studio on. By downloading the packages locally first, you can then safely disconnect from the internet before you install Visual Studio.
The Download all, then install functionality downloads a Visual Studio installation package that is customized to the local machine. Do not try to transfer this downloaded installation package to another computer, as it's not designed to work that way. Instead, if you want to download an installation package, host it on a network share or an intranet website, and transfer it to or install it on another machine, then you'll need to create a network layout as described in the create a network-based installation of Visual Studio documentation.
You can also configure future updates of Visual Studio to respect the Download all, then install behavior. For more information, refer to the installation and download behavior documentation.
Download the correct bootstrapper for the version and edition of Visual Studio you want and copy it into the directory that you want to serve as the source location of your local layout. The bootstrapper is the executable that you use to create, update, or modify your local layout. You must have an internet connection to complete this step.
Open a command prompt with administrator privileges, navigate to the directory where you downloaded the bootstrapper, and use the bootstrapper's parameters to create your local layout. Note that you must have an internet connection to complete this step. Common local layout creation examples are illustrated below. Additional examples can be found on the create a network layout of Visual Studio page and on the command-line parameter examples page. You can install a language other than English by changing en-US to a locale from the list of language locales, and you can use the list of components and workloads to further customize your local layout.
Make sure that your full installation path is less than 80 characters and that your machine has ample storage. A complete local layout of Visual Studio requires a minimum of 41 GB of disk space. For more information, see System requirements.
Make sure that your full installation path is less than 80 characters and that your machine has ample storage. A complete local layout of Visual Studio requires a minimum of 45 GB of disk space. For more information, see System requirements.
When you install Visual Studio from a local layout, the Visual Studio installer uses the local versions of the files. But, if you select components during installation that aren't in the layout, then the Visual Studio installer will attempt 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 local layout. To make sure your installer doesn't try to access the internet when it's installing the product, use the --noweb switch.
If you get an error that a signature is invalid, you must install updated certificates. Open the Certificates folder in your local layout. 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.
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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I am trying to install Visual Studio Community 2019 to a set of offline computers. I have followed the Visual studio instructions precisely and i have created the offline cache folder with all the files and .exe however when i try to install Visual Studio using the offline installer i get a prompt that it is "just getting things ready" then shows a window which attempts to download packages but again i have no network on these computers and i am really scratching my head as to why a OFFLINE installer is trying to connect to the internet...
OK i managed to solve this issue.I first needed to install the certificates to the local machine either from the certificates folder which is inside the layout folder or by right clicking the setup.exe and then Properties - Digital signatures - click on the item in the list then click Details - view certificate - install certificate - Local machine and then just continue the process with the defaults.
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:
Visit the Visual Studio website, and navigate to the Downloads page. Download the relevant installer for Visual Studio Community, Professional or Enterprise. Once the installer download is complete, run it from the command prompt using the /layout switch:
Once the download is complete you can copy the contents to a USB drive or use any ISO creation tool to create your offline installation media. This will help to mount the ISO as and when required and run the setup by executing the installer. Start the Visual Studio installation from your new installation media and sit back until it completes.
At this point, you will be able to build Android and iOS applications using Visual Studio 2015. To verify that the install was successful you can create a new blank Android or iOS project with default the configuration and run it. The project should build and run on device or emulators without any issues.
When a Xamarin.Forms project is compiled for the first time (or when related NuGet packages are updated and a project is compiled) Visual Studio downloads associated Android Support Library packages. Visual Studio will not indicate the size or download progress for installing these packages. If these packages are corrupt because of an incomplete download then there will be errors during compilation:
The Version 52.0 here is referring to the specific release of the JDK which in this case relates to JDK 8. Xamarin.Android 7.0 requires JDK 1.8 to use the Android Nougat (API 24) APIs. You can continue to use earlier versions of the JDK if targeting earlier Android API levels:
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