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Installing Visual Studio 2017 from the command line

You can use command-line parameters/switches to install Visual Studio 2017. Be sure to use the actual installer, for example, vs_enterprise.exe for the Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise edition, and not the bootstrapper file, which is named vs_setup.exe. The bootstrapper file loads the MSI for actual installation. You can also run C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vs_installershell.exe to install the Visual Studio components from the command line. Here is a list of the command-line parameters/switches:

Parameters/Switch	Description
`[--catalog] <uri> [<uri> ...]`	Required -- One or more file paths or URIs to catalogs.
`--installDir <dir>` `--installationDirectory ...`

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