Visual Studio 2019 Offline Installer New | Microsoft

To install Visual Studio on the target machine:

To create an "Offline Installer" (a complete local copy of the software), users must utilize the command line to download all desired workloads and components beforehand. This report outlines the procedure for creating this offline installation layout.

vs_professional.exe --layout C:\VS2019Offline --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktop --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NetWeb --lang en-US Use code with caution. Copied to clipboard For C++ Desktop development:

: In layouts created after June 2025 , Microsoft introduced new certificate revocation checks. On truly offline machines, the installer may silently fail or exit because it cannot reach Microsoft's revocation servers to verify package signatures.