When you try to install Visual Studio 2022 from the official Microsoft website, you are presented with a straightforward installation process that seems to require an active internet connection. The installer attempts to download the necessary files from Microsoft's servers, which can be a problem if you have a slow or unreliable internet connection. Moreover, if you are behind a firewall or a proxy server, the installation process may fail due to connectivity issues.
Downloading all 45 GB is overkill if you only need, say, .NET desktop development and Unity game development. You can customize the layout by specifying workload IDs.
The "Community" edition is free for up to 5 users in a small organization (and unlimited for open-source projects and individual developers), making it the most popular entry point into professional .NET and C++ development.
For enterprise environments where consistency is critical, you can export your current Visual Studio configuration into a .vsconfig file and use it to generate a layout. This ensures every offline installer built is byte-for-byte identical to your corporate standard.
Place the downloaded vs_community.exe file in an easily accessible folder (e.g., C:\VS_Downloads ). Hold Shift and right-click inside the folder, then select "Open PowerShell window here" or "Open command window here".
Launch the installation by double-clicking the vs_community.exe file located inside that layout folder.
You need at least one PC with high-speed internet to download the original cache.
specifically, so I can give you the exact command-line codes for those workloads?
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.Universal Step 3: Run the Command-Line Tool to Create the Layout
Replace channel URI with a fixed version’s manifest.