



channelId Optional: The ID of the channel for the instance that will be installed. In the MS web documentation for VS more parameters are mentioned:ĪFAIK, nobody figured out how to use them to guarantee really an offline install without internet connection (it seems quite likely to me that channel and/or catalog have to be redirected for hindering VS installer to go online). (But it doesn't need to download the packages already existing in the layout/image, so it saves really download volume.) I got about 20 GB out of this (1901 files).īut, as it is already known, the Visual Studio installer needs an internet connection at least to initialize, even with such an offline layout. I was able to create an offline installer with a command line like: vs_enterprise_ -layout %CD%\vs2017offline -lang en-US
