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by vetinari 1279 days ago
It is hidden, but it is there:

    vs_buildtools.exe --layout c:\where\you\want\the\entire\installer --lang en-US
Have enoughh space there, current 2019 release is ~40 GB and 2022 is ~35 GB. It is updated each month, you can use the same command to update your installer (won't remove old packages though).
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Been there, done that, stopped updating when the layout got around 52 Gb. Decided to download only relevant workloads, which proved to be a failure on each reinstallation, even with all the recommended and optional workloads included as per MS docs...