Visual Studio Community 2017 Installation Path

Question

I am trying to install Visual Studio Community 2017 on a different drive.

My C:-drive is a pretty small SSD with barely free space. So I tried to install VSC17 on me E:-drive without success.

In fact: The VisualStudioExecutables were on my E-drive but all the Subcomponents (Multiplatform Emulators and so on..) were installed on my C:-drive. The installer appearently knew that already since it already said to have not enough space for all components.

I also tried it via commandline

vs_Community /finalizeInstall --installPath "E:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community"

after that installer started with E: but still installed the subcomponents on C:

Solution

Use symbolic link to direct the path to another location, but the main issue is knowing the directories of the components you are installing. to create symbolic link: 1- Run CMD as admin type the following mklink /d "link" "target"