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We designed Visual Studio 2017 to work well in a variety of network and computer configurations. While we recommend that you try the Visual Studio web installer—which is a small file and allows you to stay current with all the latest fixes and features—we understand that you might not be able to.
This extension provides support for the Fortran programming language. It includes syntax highlighting, code snippets and a linting based on gfortran. You can download the Visual Studio Code editor from here. With Silverfrost FTN95: Fortran for Windows you can create console based, conventional Windows® and Microsoft.NET applications. Silverfrost FTN95 is the only compiler that can produce Microsoft.NET applications that can use the full Fortran 95 language. Silverfrost FTN95 also boasts its world leading CHECKMATE run-time checking technology that finds bugs fast!
We designed Visual Studio 2019 to work well in a variety of network and computer configurations. While we recommend that you try the Visual Studio web installer—which is a small file and allows you to stay current with all the latest fixes and features—we understand that you might not be able to.
For example, you might have an unreliable internet connection or one that has low bandwidth. If so, you have a few options: You can use the new 'Download all, then install' feature to download the files before you install, or you can use the command line to create a local cache of the files.
Note
If you are an enterprise administrator who wants to perform a deployment of Visual Studio to a network of client workstations that are firewalled from the internet, see our Create a network installation of Visual Studio and Install certificates required for Visual Studio offline installation pages.
Use the 'Download all, then install' feature
New in version 15.8: After you download the web installer, select the new Download all, then install option from the Visual Studio Installer. Then, continue with your installation.
After you download the web installer, select the new Download all, then install option from the Visual Studio Installer. Then, continue with your installation.
We designed the 'Download all, then install' feature so that you can download Visual Studio as a single installation for the same computer on which you downloaded it. That way, you can safely disconnect from the web before you install Visual Studio.
Important
Do not use the 'Download all, then install' feature to create an offline cache that you intend to transfer to another computer. It's not designed to work that way.
If you want to create an offline cache to install Visual Studio on another computer, see the Use the command line to create a local cache section of this page for information about how to create a local cache, or the Create a network installation of Visual Studio page for information about how to create a network cache.
If you want to create an offline cache to install Visual Studio on another computer, see the Use the command line to create a local cache section of this page for information about how to create a local cache, or the Create a network installation of Visual Studio page for information about how to create a network cache.
Use the command line to create a local cache
After you download a small bootstrapper, use the command line to create a local cache. Then, use the local cache to install Visual Studio. (This process replaces the ISO files that were available for previous versions.)
Here's how.
Step 1 - Download the Visual Studio bootstrapper
You must have an internet connection to complete this step.
Start by downloading the Visual Studio bootstrapper for your chosen edition of Visual Studio. Your setup file—or bootstrapper—will match or be similar to one of the following.
Edition | File |
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Visual Studio Community | vs_community.exe |
Visual Studio Professional | vs_professional.exe |
Visual Studio Enterprise | vs_enterprise.exe |
Visual Studio Build Tools | vs_buildtools.exe |
Edition | File |
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Visual Studio Community | vs_community.exe |
Visual Studio Professional | vs_professional.exe |
Visual Studio Enterprise | vs_enterprise.exe |
Visual Studio Build Tools | vs_buildtools.exe |
Step 2 - Create a local install cache
You must have an internet connection to complete this step.
Important
If you install Visual Studio Community, you must activate it within 30 days of installation. This requires an internet connection.
Open a command prompt and use one of the commands from the following examples. The examples that are listed here assume that you're using the Community edition of Visual Studio; adjust the command as appropriate for your edition.
Tip
To prevent an error, make sure that your full installation path is less than 80 characters.
- For .NET web and .NET desktop development, run:
- For .NET desktop and Office development, run:
- For C++ desktop development, run:
- To create a complete local layout with all features (this will take a long time—we have lots of features!), run:
Note
A complete Visual Studio layout requires a minimum of 35 GB of disk space. For more information, see System requirements. And for information about how to create a layout with only the components you want to install, see Use command-line parameters to install Visual Studio.
Note
A complete Visual Studio layout requires a minimum of 35 GB of disk space. For more information, see System requirements. And for information about how to create a layout with only the components you want to install, see Use command-line parameters to install Visual Studio.
If you want to install a language other than English, change
en-US
to a locale from the List of language locales. Then, use the list of the components and workloads available to further customize your installation cache.Step 3 - Install Visual Studio from the local cache
Tip
When you run from a local install cache, setup uses the local versions of each of these files. But if you select components during installation that aren't in the cache, setup attempts to download them from the internet.
To make sure that you install only the files that you've previously downloaded, use the same command-line options that you used to create the layout cache. For example, if you created a layout cache with the following command:
Then use this command to run the installation:
Note
If you get an error that a signature is invalid, you must install updated certificates. Open the Certificates folder in your offline cache. Double-click each of the certificate files, and then click through the Certificate Manager wizard. If you're asked for a password, leave it blank.
List of language locales
Language-locale | Language |
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cs-CZ | Czech |
de-DE | German |
en-US | English |
es-ES | Spanish |
fr-FR | French |
it-IT | Italian |
ja-JP | Japanese |
ko-KR | Korean |
pl-PL | Polish |
pt-BR | Portuguese - Brazil |
ru-RU | Russian |
tr-TR | Turkish |
zh-CN | Chinese - Simplified |
zh-TW | Chinese - Traditional |
Get support
Sometimes, things can go wrong. If your Visual Studio installation fails, see Troubleshoot Visual Studio installation and upgrade issues for step-by-step guidance.
We also offer a live chat (English only) support option for installation-related issues.
Here are a few more support options:
- Report product issues to us via the Report a Problem tool that appears both in the Visual Studio Installer and in the Visual Studio IDE.
- Suggest a feature, track product issues, and find answers in the Visual Studio Developer Community.
- Use your GitHub account to talk to us and other Visual Studio developers in the Visual Studio conversation in the Gitter community.
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I have recently acquired a copy of Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and Intel Parallel Studio Visual Fortran Compiler XE 2013.
I am familiar with neither the use of Microsoft Visual Studio nor Fortran as a programming language in general. My objective is to come up with a simple construct/framework in which I can generate and test basic Fortran programs/output in order to learn the Fortran language. This would be similar to using a basic Fortran compiler such as GNU and running things like 'hello world' type programs through the command prompt. I am however restricted to the two applications above for reasons not relevant to discuss here.
It seems that Visual Studio does not allow the user to compile/build individual source files if they are not playing some kind of role in the more general project solution (One would have to create, compile and build a separate project for each tiny Fortran program). As described by this post, Visual Studio does not allow this for apparently very good reasons.
I also found this video which describes an apparently simple way to use the
ifort
command in order to compile and run a simple Fortran program using Intel Visual Fortran. Unfortunately when I try this on my OS, I get the following error message:Although it does successfully generate an object file with the same name, though no executable.
Microsoft Visual Studio Fortran Compiler
The plausible fix to this error is the following quote which I found on an Intel forum
'the error 'cannot find link' is almost always caused by not installing the 64-bit compiler and tools component of Visual Studio'
Fortran In Microsoft Visual Studio
I do not have administrator privileges on this machine for similar reasons to those for which I am only restricted to the above two applications. For this reason I cannot apply the above fix. Furthermore I do not believe the compiler is not working for this reason.
Again, all I need is a straightforward way to write, compile and run simple Fortran code. As mentioned above, I have attempted several ideas and so my only option is to solicit guidance. Since Visual Studio can build commercial quality applications and Visual Fortran can perform parallel processing with Fortran, I am inclined to think these should be able to cover this basic need.
EDIT
I just ran ifortvars.bat in windows cmd and still get the same error. Please see below for ifortvars output.
EDIT 2
In response to Steve's answer, here are a few commands I ran using the Intel Fortran command prompt. As you can see the problem persists.
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If Intel Parallel Studio is correctly installed on your system, you should find in the Start menu an entry something like Intel Parallel Studio XE 2013. Under that (may be in a subfolder) will be an entry something like 'Intel Parallel Studio XE with Intel Compiler 13.0'. Click that. It opens a command prompt window. cd to the folder containing your source file and use:
ifort yoursourcefile.f90
to compile and link. It is true that in Visual Studio you have to have a project and solution to build an application, but that is pretty easy. Documentation is installed on your computer but also see https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/677903 - this is for the current version but yours will be the same.
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