
So at least add the language parameter: " -lang en-US" or two languages.ģ. I don't know how big the whole data for all languagesĪnd I am not sure, if I got all, with another try I got less. The following command downloads the whole VS 2017 for only English language, and there was exactly 20,6 GB shown in explorer (1901 files). What you have tried, is downloading ALL, I would not recommend that. The downloading process for the packages is not always error-free, sometimes it is aborting. It should churn away for a little while before eventually display the screen for selecting the VC workloads.ġ. Type the command cd c:\windows\system32\drivers\etcĪdd the following lines to the end of the file 127.0.0.1 ġ27.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 This should start you in the Windows system directory, e.g. Start a Command Prompt running as Administrator. I am not sure if this actually helps for the later step. Go into the 'certificates' directory in the installer directory, right click on each of the three files and select 'Install PFX'. Performing the following steps got it installed for my colleague.

After some investigation and comparison with my machine I managed to get it installed on his machine.įirstly I had created a Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise offline installer using the following command: mu_visual_studio_enterprise_2017_x86_圆4_10049783.exe -layout c:\vs2017offline -lang en-US However today my colleague using the same installer saw the error saying their was no Internet connection. I work on a completely air-gapped network and managed to install from the off-line installer without seeing any problems.
