Once created, you can copy this folder to a USB drive, network share, or internal server and install Visual Studio Community on any target PC without downloading files again.

: To update your offline installer, run the same layout command again. The Visual Studio Installer will only download new or updated files to your existing layout folder.

For a more tailored offline installer, developers can append arguments to this command. For instance, adding --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktop ensures the layout only downloads the components necessary for .NET desktop development, significantly reducing the download size compared to the full suite of workloads.