I have the latest version of visual studio community with lots of features I selected before. now I want to clone all of the installation from my computer into my laptop. I know there has to be a way of doing that without downloading 20 gigabytes from scratch.
I think there was a way to make a installer using command prompt. but I don't remember what it was exactly. thanks for help.
To create a local copy of Visual Studio setup files,
Step 1 - Download the Visual Studio bootstrapper for Visual Studio Community vs_community.exe
Step 2 - Open a command prompt as Administrator then point to the location of the downloaded file, and use one of the commands.
To create a complete local layout with all features (this will take a long time), run:
vs_community.exe --layout c:\vs2017layout --lang en-US
For .NET desktop and Office development, run:
vs_community.exe --layout c:\vs2017layout --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktop --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.Office --includeOptional --lang en-US
You can change c:\vs2017layout to another path as you like.
-add define component IDs to add
ASP.NET and web development ID: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NetWeb
.NET Core cross-platform development ID: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NetCoreTools
For more details refer to Install Visual Studio 2017 on low bandwidth or unreliable network environments