How to install VS2015 Community Edition offline

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When visiting Microsoft website to download VS2015 you can download a file of a few MB in size to install Visual Studio  When you open the file it acquires the files necessary from internet  but you can not choose where these files are stored  How can I download the entire installation of Visual Studio 2015 to perform an offline installation  For example  for multiple machines

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Download the file of website and start it with the commandline switch "/layout" (see msdn to download visual studio 2015 installer for offline installation). So C:\vs_community.exe /layout for example. It asks for a location and the download begins.

EDIT: With the ISO version you still need internet connection to be able to install ALL the features. As pointed out by Augusto Barreto.

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The following worked for me on a Windows 8 1 machine to download and prepare the setup folder  and then on a Windows 10 laptop to install    Go to https   my visualstudio com downloads q visual 20studio 20community 202015 Select    Visual Studio Community 2015 with Update 3    x64  English  DVD  and Download   Open the folder containing the download  which is called   en visual studio community 2015 with update 3 x86 x64 dvd 8923300 iso and its size is 7 617 847 296 bytes  Right-click on the file name  Mount On the mount folder  shift-right-click on an empty space   Open command window here On the command window  vs community exe  layout  blah blah blah blah  Visual Studio 2015 Setup   or whatever path you want  the Setup folder gets created   Follow the dialog box instructions    When I did this  it remained for exactly two hours and ten secs in the Acquiring  Optional items  Don   t despair   When it completed  the size of the Setup folder was 12 9 GB  Compare with the size of the  iso above   After completion  I succeeded on installing without a network connection  and that even though on completion I had got the following

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Go to https   www visualstudio com en-us downloads download-visual-studio-vs aspx  Navigate to  Visual studio downloads   select  Visual studio 2015     Next  choose format  ISO

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You can download visual studio community edition with  layout switch   But I prefer to use  layout with  NoRefresh for my low-speed internet connection that downloading long more than a day   vs community exe  layout  NoRefresh   Every time that you run the installer it searches for new updates and if it finds updates  start downloading them and consume more time and more bandwidth

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I think the ISO version is smaller than the Layout method because the ISO version is just in English or whatever language it is that you choose  however the  Layout  version is ALL of the languages available  So for example if the  Layout  version downloads a 3gb file English Version  it will download the same 3gb file in another language that you will not ever use wasting your downloads  time and all that other good stuff

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I was unable to find the direct download detailed in davidnr s post  You can download the ISO directly from the Microsoft Download Center here  https   download microsoft com download b e d bedddfc4-55f4-4748-90a8-ffe38a40e89f vs2015 3 com enu iso

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It seems there are direct links and anyone could get it with a download manager  http   download microsoft com download 1 6 d 16dc7044-cd36-49b4-bdba-30166e07c786 vs2015 2 com deu iso http   download microsoft com download f d c fdce5d40-87d3-4bd6-9139-2a7638b96174 vs2015 2 com enu iso http   download microsoft com download 4 1 5 415ec933-31ee-443d-8bd6-55268d472331 vs2015 2 com esn iso http   download microsoft com download 7 7 4 77471e13-cfac-43c2-b76e-459238142bd5 vs2015 2 com fra iso http   download microsoft com download 5 9 9 5991bfbe-21d0-430a-ad1c-2aa8328a2d3e vs2015 2 com ita iso http   download microsoft com download c a 1 ca188bdc-fead-4933-a699-4da31a4b04db vs2015 2 com rus iso http   download microsoft com download 3 4 a 34a0480a-effd-4e12-878b-d243bdbb4d2c vs2015 2 com kor iso http   download microsoft com download 0 f 8 0f89c8af-9430-4c13-bf6a-d75b7513ac29 vs2015 2 com chs iso http   download microsoft com download 1 2 c 12c9f1b7-71e2-46fc-a07b-e53b2a954c4c vs2015 2 com jpn iso http   download microsoft com download 7 1 8 7186591d-7877-4461-9b49-7e236846f526 vs2015 2 com cht iso References from here

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I bumped into this page  Download  VisualStudio 2015  ISO   Web Installer    http   www kunal-chowdhury com 2015 07 download-visualstudio-2015 html  and the ISO link  https   go microsoft com fwlink  LinkId 615448 amp clcid 0x409  provided in this page seems to be valid   I am downloading the ISO at this very moment   Edit   Was able to download the ISO and burned into a DVD   Also tried installing  only C C    on a 64-bit Windows 10 laptop and everything seems to work except that the installer couldn t find and had to go to Internet to download packages vcRedistD12 1033 vcredist x64 exe  although this file does exist in DVD and runnable

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That is direct link to ISO file   https   go microsoft com fwlink  LinkId 615448 amp clcid 0x409  1

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edit   Starting from visual studio 2017 Microsoft is no longer offering  ISO images  For the new visual studio 2017 you have to download vs community exe from here and create an offline instalation folder   vs community exe --layout c  vs2017offline  Then  in order to install from that folder you have to first install certificates from  certificates in the download folder and then run the installation

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If you are a MSDN subscriber follow the steps below    Go to msdn microsoft com and sign in  Go to Programs- Subscriptions- Overview Click on Subscriber Access Click on Product Keys   Claim key as needed  Select your Visual Studio Preference  click the EXE drop down list  and select DVD  This will change it to an  ISO image By default the web installer is selected   Click green download button approximately 7 12Gb    note  I used a Virtual-CloneDrive-5 5 to mount this ISO and install

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You can download the ISO from https   beta visualstudio com downloads   even if it has  beta  in the URL you ll have the latest stable version  Currently update 3

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Even if you download the ISO files there will be lots of stuff not included in the installer which requires connection to internet when installing  for example    Emulators for Windows Mobile Windows 10 SDK Tools for Windows 10 Universal Apps GitHub Extension for Visual Studio and Git CLI C   NET Xamarin Visual C   Mobile Development  iOS support   Joyent Node js Java SE Development Kit Android SDK  NDK  and emulator   Perhaps some of them are not possible to include but it is annoying nonetheless

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As pointed in MSDN  Create an Offline Installation of Visual Studio  To create an offline installation layout  Choose the edition of Visual Studio that you want to install from the my visualstudio com download page   After you download the installer to a location on your file system  run  quot  lt executable name gt   layout quot   For example  run  en visual studio community 2015 exe  layout D  VisualStudio2015 By using the  layout switch  you can download almost all the installation packages  not just the ones that apply to the download machine  This approach gives you the files that you need to run this installer anywhere and it might be useful if you want to install components that weren t installed originally   After you run this command  a dialog box will appear that allows you to change the folder where you want the offline installation layout to reside  Next  click the Download button  When the package download is successful  you should see a message that says Setup Successful  All specified components have been acquired successfully   Locate the folder that you specified earlier   For example  locate D  VisualStudio2015   This folder contains everything you need to copy to a shared location or install media  Caution  Currently  the Android SDK does not support an offline installation experience  If you install Android SDK Setup items on a computer that is not connected to the internet  the installation might fail  For more information  see the  quot Troubleshooting an offline installation quot  section in this topic   Run the installation from the file location or from the install media

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For the latest VS2015 sp3  the command line shoud be   en visual studio community 2015 with update 3 x86 x64 web installer 8922963 exe  Layout c  VS2015sp3 offline

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