Fyi... I just tried the offline download and after 34 minutes, it is hung and won't finish.

The command line I used:

  vs_Enterprise.exe --layout z:\VS2017_RTM --lang en-US

last lines of the console:

  ...
  Download of 'https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=823168' succeeded using engine 'WebClient'
  Download of 'https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=833503' succeeded using engine 'WebClient'
  Download of 'https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=833501' succeeded using engine 'WebClient'
  Download of 'https://download.microsoft.com/download/B/5/5/B55373E5-8948-41DF-B1D5-F60896104294/WinSdkInstall.ps1' succeeded using engine 'WebClient'
  Download of 'https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=838828' succeeded using engine 'WebClient'

stats of the target directory so far:

  2,631 Files, 1,005 Folders total  14,444,652,261 bytes

I previously got the offline download to complete with version RC1 in November 2016 but RC2 in Janurary 2017 always hung in the same spot. I didn't pursue RC2 troubleshooting since RTM would be available a month later and I hoped whatever problem with RC2 would be resolved in RTM.

Well, it still doesn't work. Please let the MS team know that there's something about the offline download ("--layout" option) that's fragile and prone to hang. I don't believe it's an issue with overloaded servers because when I tried multiple times with RC2, it always hung on the exact same file whether it was morning/night/ weekday/weekend. I suspect the current problem is similar.

I took a screenshot of the hung process for RC2 in January and it seems to hang right after downloading WinSdkInstall.ps1 which is similar to RTM behavior:

RC2 hung in January: http://imgur.com/a/uwfoj

RTM hung in March (today): http://imgur.com/a/QxqC3

Unfortunately the printed logs only show what has been downloaded, not what is currently downloading. I know - that's not very helpful in this case. It would be really useful to see the more detailed logs, which are stored in the %TEMP% folder. It might be that it's not hung at all - if it's a really large file that's being downloaded. If you're willing to mail me at [email protected], I'd be happy to work with you to grab your detailed logs and investigate further.

Thanks for your reply. It helped me get past the problem.

I want to the %TEMP% folder and looked at dd_setup_2017??.log and saw that it last executed:

  Running: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe with parameters: -NoLogo -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -InputFormat None -Command ...

I then went to Task Manager and noticed the powershell.exe command hanging with 0% cpu consumed.

I remembered that sometimes those commands hang on network paths so I ran "vs_Enterprise.exe --layout" again to local "C:\VS2017_RTM" instead of mapped "Z:\VS2017_RTM".

It then completed without hanging. The completed target folder has:

  1,901 Files, 765 Folders  total  22,171,951,890 bytes

It seems strange that the successful completion results in less files & folders but 8 more gigabytes. I assume some intermediate scripts cleaned up some files.

Great - so glad that you're up and running. Thanks for the update. We'll take this back and see if we can repro this in-house.

Thanks the report, @jasode. I'm bringing in a few folk to take a look.

Okay, well. Will MSDN subscribers get iso's eventually?

It seems also to be broken, or your servers are choked :-(

Demand is very high but honestly I'm not 100% aware of MSDN Subscriber ISO status. I will report this comment to that team though

"Due to licensing complexity of today's installer" - LOL

If there is licensing complexity in making an ISO file, just make a ZIP file of the whole thing.

The licensing complexity comes from things like downloading cordova and the android sdk, etc... Which are options that you can select. Distributing in ISO form, would mean changing the installer license, as opposed to optional licenses to agree to, you have to then composite the whole.

easy - how about making cordova, android sdks, etc as a downloadable component after the main Visual Studio is installed?

> easy... just do this thing I have no idea about nor any clue how it would implemented

lol.

Which then negates the purpose of an offline installer...