The offline package can be used in situations in which the web installer cannot be used because of lack of Internet connectivity. This package is larger than the web installer and does not include the language packs. We recommend that you use the web installer instead of the offline installer for optimal efficiency and bandwidth requirements.
The Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 is a highly compatible in-place update to the Microsoft .NET Framework 4, the .NET Framework 4.5, the .NET Framework 4.5.1, and the .NET Framework 4.5.2.
Wherever possible, Microsoft recommends you use the Web Installer instead of the Offline Package for optimal efficiency and bandwidth requirements. The offline package can be used in situations where the web installer cannot be used because of a lack of Internet connectivity.
When you install this package, you can see following packages or updates installed as per operating system:
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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.
In this post, sharing the links to download the Visual Studio 2015 web installer, ISO image for offline installation. Apart from the community edition, the other versions are trial versions unless you have a license code.
We are providing the download link to the offline installer of the mentioned toolkit component below. Please make sure there is no other instance of the product toolkit or standalone components on the system before proceeding.
Some weeks ago we published a rather comprehensive list of all Microsoft Visual Studio Build Numbers, Version IDs and Default Paths from VS6 to VS2017. For those who keep asking where they can download the ISO files of the older builds, we put together this far-from-complete list containing some of the most known official direct download links for the offline installers and/or ISO files, together with service packs and support files.
Prior to the question:I was about to install something on a production server. The updated software needed the 4.6.1 version of the .Net framework. I therefore did as I have done many times before, just google for an offline version of the installer. Surprisingly I instead reached a page with the message I posted in the question. So I tried other links, but no matter where I went to download the file I got the same message.
Your question's headline, "Why is Microsoft .Net Framework 4.6.1 offline installer suddenly gone?" is simply off-topic. Asking where an offline installer is not directly a programming question -- it is a programming tool installation question. For just this reason, it is considered off-topic.
You can refer to Mehdi Dehghani answer for the direct download linksor the old-fashioned ways using the website, vibs2006 answer
And you can also combine it with ray pixar answer to make it a complete full standalone offline installer.