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There are no ISOs since Visual Studio 2017. Just use the layout script and put it on thumb drive, network share, etc. I mean, who needs ISOs for this in 2019?
Very nice script, thanks for that. It should be noted that, in case it's not obvious, if you only want English then you need to change this line by removing the lang argument. I tried using en-EN for language and it failed, so I simply removed it.
Thanks Try : Code: vs_enterprise.exe --layout C:\VS2019ENT --lang en-US en-EN doesn't exist. Great thanks to Sajjo I have updated my post : https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/visual-studio-2019.79150/#post-1506787
Very good script. For those who want to try - this is what, I did. 1. Copied vs_exterprise.exe to c:\users\xxxxxx\documents 2. Created new folder called download at c:\ 3. Copied the script to notepad and changed the language to en-US 4. Saved the script as vs.bat at c:\users\xxxxxx\documents 5. Opened Power Shell and changed the directory to c:\users\xxxxxx\documents 6. Run vs.bat script file 7. The script automatically created a folder VS2019ENT at c:\download 8. The script started downloading VS2019 9. After download is complete the script will use Imgburn program to create ISO. All in all a success. .
Just curious: why do you guys create ISOs? I mean, setup from a DVD is pretty slow compared to, for example, a decent USB thumbdrive. Plus, it's read-only so updating the layout is not possible as well. And, depending on the workloads selected, it might not even fit on a DVD. What's your use case?
ISO is easily mountable from explorer or by attaching to a running virtual machine, and being read-only it gives the assurance that the install source has not been modified since you created it. Also, if you need to copy it somewhere, one huge file goes faster than thousands of tiny files and folders.
Makes sense, I didn't consider virtual machines. An ISO is easier to mount indeed, especially when you want to make sure the source is unchanged. In my case, I make it available via a network share, so I can keep the files up to date in one location and always install the latest bits when required.
ISO is only a container format. You can easily create it or extract the contents with most up-to-date archivers. So, it's nothing else as zipping the contents of the USB drive. Although without compression, it has the added advantage of being directly mountable. I have many ISOs, but most of them, I never burn to media.