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The purpose of this feature is to frontload the downloading of the Visual Studio packages onto the same computer that you plan on eventually installing Visual Studio on.

To download a local installation package, select the Download all, then install option in the dropdown at the bottom of the Workloads tab of the Visual Studio Installer. You can use the Download all, then install feature from the Visual Studio Installer to download an installation package on the local machine before you install it locally, or you can use the command line to create a local installation package to install locally later. For situations like these, we've made additional methods available for acquiring Visual Studio. For example, you might have an unreliable internet connection or your internet connection may have low bandwidth. Use the 'Download all, then install' feature If you are an enterprise IT administrator who wants to perform a deployment of Visual Studio throughout a network of client workstations, or if you need to create an installation package of files to transfer to or install onto another machine, refer to our Visual Studio Administrators Guide, the create a network-based installation of Visual Studio page, and the deploy a layout onto a client machine documentation.

The information on this page discusses how to create an offline installation package of files for installation on the local machine. We designed Visual Studio to work well in various computer configurations.

Create an offline installation package of Visual Studio for local installation

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