While this article focuses on the official method, you may find online resources (like blog.cnblogs.com) offering pre-built ISO images for specific regions (e.g., Visual Studio 2022 Chinese Enterprise Offline ISO). These files are often large (20-50GB) and distributed via cloud storage like Baidu Pan. While convenient, these carry inherent security risks.
Here's an example that downloads only .NET desktop and web development workloads with Chinese language support:
Here's a comparison of the offline installer ISO with other installation methods: visual studio 2022 offline installer iso best
Before diving into the "how," let’s justify the "why." Using the practices yields three massive advantages:
Open the offline installer folder ( C:\VSLayout ) on the target machine. While this article focuses on the official method,
Rename vs_professional__xxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.exe to vs_professional.exe
Every developer knows the pain. You format your machine, you’re setting up a fresh environment, you fire up the Visual Studio Installer… and then you wait. You watch the progress bar crawl as it downloads gigabytes of packages from Microsoft’s servers. Here's an example that downloads only
It's important to know that . The company only offers a small online "bootstrapper" file (a few MBs) that downloads the necessary components during installation.
The best offline installer is the one that fits your specific workload—it is the layout configured with precise --add commands to minimize bloat, packaged into an ISO for distribution, and maintained with --layout updates to stay current.
Downloading 40GB once is better than downloading 40GB across ten developer machines. An ISO allows for local network deployment at 1GB/s speeds.