
An interesting thing about the various implementations is that they offer slightly different features and with different UI paradigms. Various editors and IDEs offer this feature today, but Visual Studio has required the use of extensions such as VS Diff to provide the feature. There is no straightforward way in Visual Studio to do those things today, but in this month’s experiment we’re going to change that. And again, sometimes comparing our local changes to previous versions from our Git commit history. Sometimes, even comparing the content of the clipboard with a file on disk. This can be beneficial to other community members reading this thread.As developers, we often need to compare two files to find the differences. Please remember to click "Mark as Answer" the responses that resolved your issue, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if not. Microsoft Visual Studio Product team will evaluate it seriously, please wait patiently. In addition, many communities have same doubt as yours, I also help you add comment about the ISO feature request, please see, you could vote it: Please see my screenshot about he VS 2017 US offline installer's size, more that 20GB:įor there are many packages missing in the installer you create, please ensure you have a well-connected network, then refer toĬreate an offline installation of Visual Studio 2017, to re-download and re-install VS 2017, make sure windows update is up-to-date, clean up the %temp% folder and temporarily disable any antivirus software, reboot the computer and re-run the VS 2017 RTM

Is this a common problem with the newest version of VS2017? We have been downloading ISOs of each version up until 2015 update 3, but with no ISO availableįor VS2017-we now need to create a standalone installer this way and it doesn't seem to be working as advertised. VS 2017 shows up in add/remove programs,īut if we try to uninstall it, we get the same white box as trying to install it again. Now the installer just opens a white box and nothing else happens.

After a while-20/30 minutes of inactivity, killed the installer with task manager. Studio Professional 2017 from the three options. The install would hang after selecting Visual

We copied these files to a machine in our enclave, which does not have internet access and attempted to run the setup for VS 2017.

Which filled the folder with ~ 8GB of content including an installer. Vs_professional.exe -layout c:\vs2017offline -lang en-US We recently downloaded the VS 2017 web installer and creating an offline installer using these instructions: /en-us/visualstudio/install/create-an-offline-installation-of-visual-studio
