To create an offline installation, follow these steps:

Here is the direct and technical answer regarding the (suitable for documentation, scripts, or internal knowledge bases).

If you only do .NET or C++ development, you can download just those workloads to save space.

– >35 GB :

Microsoft does not provide a single monolithic .exe or .iso for Visual Studio 2022. Instead, you generate an offline layout using the and the --layout command.

The command window will display a progress bar. It will download all necessary files into the target folder ( c:\VS2022Offline in the examples above). Once the process finishes, the command prompt will return to a blinking cursor.