

We can make Offline Installer use downloaded EXE file to follow these steps. First, open command prompt and type the command given below. When we run this EXE file, then it will ask us to choose the installation packages and based on our selection, it will download all these packages online and install them.Įven if we can install it online, sometimes we need Offline Installer. Thus, when we download Visual Studio 2017, it only provides vs_enterprise.exe (every versions has different name). Sometimes, we do not need the whole installation package, we only want to download those packages, which are required for our development, which is a custom installation package. Nevertheless, this time Visual Studio is one step ahead and makes our installation very easy. Visual Studio 2015 or previous versions of Visual Studio come with the installation packages, where the whole package is downloaded when we download any of these versions. Once we feel the required prerequisites are available, we can start the installation. As per the Visual Studio official Website, the prerequisites given below should be fulfilled. Free trial is also available for these two products (Professional and Enterprise).īefore installation, we must consider our hardware and prerequisites. We can also just compare the features among all these three different products of Visual Studio. However, if we require all the features of Visual Studio 2017, then we need to purchase and download it from Visual Studio site. Even we do not have license for Visual Studio 2017 Community, we can start the development, using this with the limited features. NET Core features and cross platform development but this is on'y if we have installed all the required packages. We can install it and start coding right away. If we do not have Microsoft subscriptions for Visual Studio, then we can go with Visual Studio Community Version, which is free and most of the features are covered. Compared to earlier versions, it has three different versions and these are Community, Professional and Enterprise. We can download Visual Studio 2017 from the Visual Studio official site. At that point of time, C# didn't exist and Visual Basic, Visual C++ etc. The first version of Visual Studio IDE was released on March 19, 1997, which was Visual Studio 97. Visual Studio 2017 is the most awaited software from Microsoft. Recently, Microsoft launched Visual Studio 2017 on the 20 th Anniversary of Visual Studio IDE.
