Ah OK. I was thinking you could get any downloadable Microsoft merch there that was for sale. Didn't realize it needed full cross-platform compatibility. Thanks!
The offline installation setup archive of just the English components of Visual Studio 2017 Community is about 50GBs. It could be larger, I haven't updated my install archive since a couple of version upgrades were released.
Installing common components for C++ programming, debugging, etc, chews up about 10GB. Just a small fraction of the available components.
The installation spreads components all over the place, not just in the user specified directory.
Each version upgrade gobbles up more space without adding more installed components.
Ive got it installed and working after buying an SSD to install it partly onto drive D (there's 32GB SSD soldered onto the mainboard)... creating a new windows project gives me a starter with around 200 lines of code. So now its time to start learning the Windows API I guess. Where did everyone else start?