visual studio community offline installer

Microsoft claims the setup package as virus free. If you are looking to download the Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 (RTM), you can download it directly from Microsoft site listed below. If the TFS update installation fails, you will be unable to restart the update or roll back to the earlier version of TFS without performing a restore.

Before you try to apply the TFS update, make sure that you have a full backup of your current databases. The TFS update is a full layout that replaces whatever is installed on the computer. The Visual Studio update is an update that installs on top of whatever is already installed on the computer. This update applies to Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server (TFS). This update is the latest in a cumulative series of feature additions and bug fixes for Visual Studio 2012 to enhance and expand Visual Studio more frequently to support the latest software development innovations for building and managing modern app development. If you are waiting for the final release of Update 4, it’s the time to update your IDE with latest set of features & fixes. This includes the latest cumulative series of feature additions and bug fixes. Within this timeframe, they also released couple of intermediate release of the Update 4 for beta testing and bug fixes. After the release of Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 (RTM) in 26th June, Microsoft released the 4th Update to the web today, the 13th November 2013.

Visual studio community offline installer