Create an offline installer for Visual Studio 2017

Its as simple as:

1. Download the appropriate installer: https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/

2. Run the following command on the installer (eg: if you downloaded the enterprise edition and the file was called “vs_enterprise__1432384505.1483734108.exe”

vs_enterprise__1432384505.1483734108.exe --layout vs2017_offline

Where vs2017_offline is the folder where the offline installer will be downloaded.

For more information see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/create-a-network-installation-of-visual-studio.

Note: these steps can be applied to any Visual Studio installer (since 2015). Also, if you rerun the command, it will automatically update the folder with the latest release.