{"id":533,"date":"2015-03-17T09:48:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T08:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nullalo.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:20:20","slug":"microsoft-visual-studio-20122013-update-installer-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nullalo.com\/en\/microsoft-visual-studio-update-offline-installer\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Visual Studio 2012\/2013 Update: offline installer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 12nd November 2014, Microsoft released\u00a0<strong>Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 RTM<\/strong>: the details are available <a title=\"Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 RTM\" href=\"https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/en-us\/news\/vs2013-update4-rtm-vs\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The entire update\u00a0package\u00a0is about <strong>5.8 Gb<\/strong>, and Microsoft does not provide an offline installer. If you have several\u00a0developers and they\u00a0need to install this update on their PCs, it can be useful to download the whole package just once and then share it to your team. \u00a0Here\u2019s how:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Get the update web installer from Microsoft website\u00a0<a title=\"Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Update 4\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=44921\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0and save it to a folder.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Open a command window in that folder (you can open that folder, then press shift + right-click on the background and choose &#8220;Open command window here&#8221; as shown below.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-534\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/vs_update_01_en.png\" alt=\"vs_update_01_en\" width=\"316\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nullalo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/vs_update_01_en.png 316w, https:\/\/www.nullalo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/vs_update_01_en-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the command window type\u00a0<strong>VS2013.4.exe \/Layout\u00a0<\/strong>(or VS2013.2.exe \/Layout or VS2013.3.exe \/Layout, depending on the update required) and\u00a0press\u00a0Enter.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-535\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/vs_update_02_en.png\" alt=\"vs_update_02_en\" width=\"677\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nullalo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/vs_update_02_en.png 677w, https:\/\/www.nullalo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/vs_update_02_en-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nullalo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/vs_update_02_en-360x182.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the installer, select the location where you wish to save and extract the downloaded files.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-539 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nullalo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/vs_update_03_en.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nullalo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/vs_update_03_en.png 460w, https:\/\/www.nullalo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/vs_update_03_en-214x300.png 214w, https:\/\/www.nullalo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/vs_update_03_en-360x504.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Click on &#8220;Download&#8221; button and wait for the task to complete: it can take very long, depending on your Internet connection\u00a0speed.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-538\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/vs_update_04_en.png\" alt=\"vs_update_04_en\" width=\"460\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nullalo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/vs_update_04_en.png 460w, https:\/\/www.nullalo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/vs_update_04_en-214x300.png 214w, https:\/\/www.nullalo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/vs_update_04_en-360x504.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now you can store the whole destination folder (in the example E:\\Documents\\Update 4) in a safe place, and use it for all your installations without having to download almost 6 Gb every time!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the time of writing, this procedure\u00a0should work for <strong>all Microsoft Visual Studio 2012\/2013 updates<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 12nd November 2014, Microsoft released\u00a0Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 RTM: the details are available here. The entire update\u00a0package\u00a0is about 5.8 Gb, and Microsoft does not provide an offline installer. If you have several\u00a0developers and they\u00a0need to install this update on their PCs, it can be useful to download the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54,25,49,24,53],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aggiornamento","tag-installer","tag-microsoft","tag-offline","tag-visual-studio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Visual Studio 2012\/2013 Update: offline installer - Nullalo!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The entire package is about 5.8 Gb, and Microsoft does not provide an offline installer. 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