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I've done a reinstall of Windows and it's finally time for me to move to Visual Studio 2017 and I'm not sure what I should install other than the standard Microsoft workloads.

I'm a bit shocked that the options I selected come to almost 60Gb! Some of the bits like the Android images, I have only needed twice in the past few years - and, I used the Android development kit for them.

I was just wondering, does installing bits from the VS Installer keep them up to date, use the latest versions or have any special integrations? Or, am I best off just installing the Microsoft only core products and then the Android development kit, unity and other bits when I actually need them?

Wil
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Not easy to answer. If you ask me I would install Visual Studio 2017 with default options. Then you access / install other components via the Tools => Get Tools and Features... menu option. Maybe go to the Individual Components view (rather than the workloads view) - it features a lot of flexibility in getting individual packages (main article: Install Visual Studio 2017).

There is also Tools => Extensions and Options... to check for upgrades and for third party extensions to Visual Studio. As far as I know these upgrades are not applied automatically.

Finally the Help => Add and Remove Help Content allows you to download help content locally (otherwise you go to MDSN for the content each time).

Stein Åsmul
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