How to install VS2015 Community Edition offline

Question

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.

Answer 1

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&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).

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

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:

1. Go to https://my.visualstudio.com/downloads?q=visual%20studio%20community%202015
2. Select “Visual Studio Community 2015 with Update 3” x64, English, DVD, and Download.
3. 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.
4. Right-click on the file name: Mount
5. On the mount folder, shift-right-click on an empty space: Open command window here
6. 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).
7. 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:

Answer 6

For the Visual Studio Community 2015 with Update 2 you will have to click on Visual Studio 2015 on the left panel first, in order to display the Download options.

The SHA-1 values, in order to verify the integrity of the downloaded file, can be found here.

For the record, Microsoft Download Center has the ISO images for both Visual Studio Community 2015 and Visual Studio Community 2015 with Update 1.