The new installation experience

In this section, we will discuss the various workloads and components of Visual Studio 2017's new installation experience. The basic installer that comes in the web-only mode allows you to select the components that you want to install before it downloads them. This saves you a lot of bandwidth. We will cover them here.

Unlike the previous versions of Visual Studio, you will not find an Offline Installer for Visual Studio 2017. You need to manually create it, which you can use to install Visual Studio 2017 without internet connectivity. This can be done by creating a layout using the web installer. Although the download size of the offline installer is big, it saves you the time and bandwidth when you want to install it on multiple devices.

In this section, we will learn how to configure and install different workloads or components using the online and offline installers. We will then continue to learn the ways to modify or uninstall the Visual Studio installation, as well as signing in to the IDE for a synced workspace setting across devices.

Before going into depth, let's see the system requirements to install Visual Studio 2017:

• Visual Studio 2017 will install and run on the following operating systems:
  • Windows 10 version 1507 or higher to build apps for Universal Windows Platform (UWP)
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows 8.1 (with Update 2919355)
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 (with Update 2919355)
  • Windows 7 SP1 (with the latest Windows Updates)
• Here's the hardware requirements:
  • 1.8 GHz or faster processor. It's recommended to have dual core or higher.
  • At least 2 GB of RAM, minimum 2.5 GB if running in a Virtual Machine. It's recommended to have 4 GB of RAM.
  • It's recommended to have 1 GB to 40 GB HDD space, based on the features you are going to install.
  • Visual Studio will work best at a resolution of WXGA (1366 by 768) or higher.