Visual Studio installation

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Deployment of Visual Studio is possible using the Custom Software feature.

Select the right "bootstrapper" for your use case / license:

2022:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/create-an-offline-installation-of-visual-studio?view=vs-2022#step-1---download-the-visual-studio-bootstrapper

2019:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/create-an-offline-installation-of-visual-studio?view=vs-2019#step-1---download-the-visual-studio-bootstrapper

2017:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualstudio/visual-studio-2017/install/create-an-offline-installation-of-visual-studio?view=vs-2017#step-1---download-the-visual-studio-bootstrapper

All you need to deploy a given edition is to run it with these parameters: --quiet --wait. This will automatically install the latest 64-bit version.

For most use cases the above will suffice, however, the pages that we link to above documents various possibilities for customising the installation.