I use the following command to create a standalone installer for Visual Studio 2017 Professional:
vs_professional.exe --layout c: \ vs2017 \ - lang ru-US
It launches the initial window, but ends in a few minutes without loading anything. It creates a folder, but only certificates are in the folder.
Looking at the installation files in the temp directory, I was able to find the following lines in dd_vs_professional_decompression_log:
[3/9/2017, 13:18:56] The entire Box execution exiting with result code: 0x0
[3/9/2017, 13:18:56] Launched extracted application exiting with result code: 0x57
And this is in the dd_bootstrapper magazine
VisualStudio Bootstrapper:3/9/2017 1:26:14 PM: Unable to parse the json file since it not exists: 0
VisualStudio Bootstrapper:3/9/2017 1:18:46 PM: Waiting for setup process to complete...
VisualStudio Bootstrapper:3/9/2017 1:18:46 PM: Vs setup process exited with code 87
VisualStudio Bootstrapper:3/9/2017 1:18:55 PM: Bootstrapper Successfully completed.
Setup never displays a command window that loads individual components.
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