Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition Installation Stuck In Windows 10

Question

I am trying to install VS 2015 in Windows 10 and the installation is stuck at the \"Applying Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 x86 Debug Runtime - 14.0.23026\" section for around

Answer 1

I have been researching this issue and I am really surprised, that most of the folks trying to install Visual Studio 2015 or one of its update are not aware that all they have to do is run the setup as an admin with the /NoWeb argument and the setup will succeed in reasonable time.

The real culprit is not the setup itself, but that it tries to download and apply optional items not included in the .iso file. Ofcourse if you use the websetup to install the product, you do get a feedback on the main core items that are initially installed, and all those items are available in the iso, which can be easily downloaded. But the other optional items can only be applied by the setup by downloading and then be installed.

So I simple use the /Layout argument to the Visual Studio setup to cache all the items offline, then I use either /NoWeb or disconnect from internet or both to ensure that I can install all my components ok.

Please note that I have personally tried this, i.e. using the /NoWeb and/or disconnecting from internet and/or using the /Layout to download the whole deal and then running the setup offline.