Visual Studio 2013 needs 1GB
Visual Studio 2015 needs 1.5GB
Visual Studio 2017 needs....
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14GB!!!!!

14gb if you install everything I suppose. My installation, only C#/.net part, took 3gb. Still a little too much I would say.

I've been trying to install it for a few days :S

Low internet speed at its best.

2015 took 9 GiB for me (c++ only,)

Am i doing something wrong lol

2015 took 51 GB here. Whot (okay, after I upgraded to Enterprise - thank you school - it only were 6 GB, but still more than 1.5 GB. What am I doing wrong?

.Net Core workload runs at ~500mb :-)

I installed a couple of workloads and got 6GB... It's not a lot if you take in account the 512gb SSD, 1tb HDD and a limitless NAS...

One must remember that VS is not a text editor (like sublime or npp), and not a glorified text editor (atom, vscode) but rather a sophisticated software the goes far beyond text writing

14 GB of code or what? Isn't that too much for just text?

@cosinusdealfa 14 gb of installation files. SDKs, binaries for VS, tools, extensions, utilities, etc. It's not about code.

LOL, why do people hate on VS so much? If you don't like it, fuck off to Viemacslimetextom land.

@drRoss it's a work standard. The people paying say to use it, so I do. Doesn't mean I have to like it! 😚

The space isn't something that bothers me, I have lots of it, but how it NEEDS to fill every partition instead of the one I choose

God are you a peasant or something? This isn't the 1980's anymore, it's time to turn in your 1 MB hard drive and go buy a bigger SSD.

lel

Not true.. I installed mine yesterday with most of the addons and I have 12gig....

Well, that escalated quickly.

The base install is very low in size, but doesn't package the features you may need, it doesn't even include the C#, VB compilers and support. For that the download size increases to about 8GB and if you're adding more libraries and components like WPF, ASP and C++ the size will be around ~12-16GB. The new installer just lets you choose exactly what you need and don't need, pretty good in my opinion.

@asinglenoob ++++++++++++

Don't get me wrong, I love Visual Studio and I've got the space. But it seems like the only developers who care about program size these days are Web and DBAs. Application developers say buy more disk, but few web developers will say buy a faster connection.

But that's for Everything.
They've got tools for stuff like Xamarin, Typescript, Silverlight etc and a barely anyone needs all of that.

And supposedly vs17 installer makes it easier than ever to select only the stuff you need

I ran https://github.com/Microsoft/... and it reclaimed ~30GB of space. I'm fighting getting the Slow Track to install the new OS prior to embarking on the marathon of VS2017 download/install.

@andros705 that's because atom is just a better notepad

What planned are ya from? My VS2015 consumed healthy 8gb

@tomeb everything in that mothereffer is more than 50 gigs

@dontbeevil because i have a 1tb harddrive with nothing else to fill the space with

+You never know what you'll need to make a specific app

Who forced you to use it?