Visual Studio Community 2017 Offline Installer -

How to make an offline installer for VS2017 - Scott Hanselman

Enter the offline installer: the developer’s equivalent of packing canned beans for a long winter. visual studio community 2017 offline installer

Find (version 15.9 is the final stable release). How to make an offline installer for VS2017

Download the small executable file, typically named vs_community.exe . 3. Create the Offline Layout visual studio community 2017 offline installer

You need a high-speed connection on a different machine to download the initial files.

For VS2017 specifically, the offline installer is now a piece of abandonware adjacent history. Microsoft’s official download links for the web installer still work. But the layouts people created in 2017-2019 are now rare treasures traded on Stack Overflow archives and private team drives.