Visual Studio 2019 Offline Installer

Copy the entire C:\VS2019_Layout folder (I recommend using robocopy for large directories) to the local machine, e.g., D:\VS2019_Layout.

Once finished, navigate to C:\VS2019_Layout. You should see:

Congratulations! You now have a portable Visual Studio 2019 offline installer. visual studio 2019 offline installer

Visual Studio 2019 receives monthly security and feature updates. Your offline installer from January is missing fixes from June. How do you update without redownloading everything?

Use the same --layout command on your original online PC. Copy the entire C:\VS2019_Layout folder (I recommend using

The installer compares your local folder with Microsoft’s servers and downloads only the changed files.

vs_community.exe --layout D:\VS2019_Offline --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktop --lang en-US

This is incremental. If an update is 300 MB, it downloads 300 MB, not 12 GB again. Congratulations

For IT Administrators: Set this as a scheduled task monthly:

robocopy D:\VS2019_Offline \\CompanyShare\IT\VS2019_Offline /MIR
vs_community.exe --layout \\CompanyShare\IT\VS2019_Offline --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktop --lang en-US