Desktop development with C++

Use offline or online installation

2025-10-09

Written by: xiaobin

Note: Use Windows 10/11 from the Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC).

Win10 must be at least version 1809.
Win11 must be at least version 24H2.

• Visual Studio 2017
• Visual Studio 2019
• Visual Studio 2022
• Visual Studio 2026

offline

• vs17/vs16

.\vs_community.exe --layout D:\v17v16 `
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.CoreEditor `
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.CoreEditor `
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Roslyn.Compiler `
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.TextTemplating `
--add Microsoft.Component.MSBuild `
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.CoreIde `
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Tools.x86.x64 `
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Redist.14.Latest `
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.NativeDesktop.Core `
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop `
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows10SDK.19041 `
--lang en-US

vs15

.\vs_community.exe --layout D:\v15 `
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.CoreEditor `
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.CoreEditor `
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Roslyn.Compiler `
--add Microsoft.Component.MSBuild `
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Static.Analysis.Tools `
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.TextTemplating `
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.CoreIde `
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Redist.14.Latest `
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.NativeDesktop.Core `
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Tools.x86.x64 `
--add Microsoft.Component.VC.Runtime.UCRTSDK `
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows81SDK `
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.NativeDesktop.Win81 `
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop `
--lang en-US

online

optional:

• msvc
• Windows SDK

msvc

• vs2017
  VC++ 2017 version 15.9 v14.16 latest v141 tools
• vs2019
  MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++ x64/x86 build tools(Latest)
• vs2022
  MSVC v143 - VS 2022 C++ x64/x86 build tools(Latest)
• vs2026
  MSVC v145 - x64/x86 build tools(Latest)

Win SDK

• vs2017
  Windows 8.1 SDK and UCRT SDK
• vs2019
  Windows 10 SDK(10.0.19041.0)
• vs2022
  Windows 11 SDK(10.0.22621.0)
• vs2026
  Windows 11 SDK(10.0.26100.x)