I recently modified my Visual Studio installation to install the F# Language support. When I did this, it was a little painful. I went all the way to to the Microsoft site, and downloaded the Visual Studio 2017 installer.

I realize I could have also gone to the Windows Add/Remove programs and clicked “Modify” on the VS Professional Installation. But even this takes several steps, including typing in a search box, waiting for a list of programs to load, and picking the right version of Visual Studio, as on some of my machines I have several versions of Visual Studio installed.

It turns out there is much easier way access the installer from directly in Visual Studio.

To access the Visual Studio installer, click on Tools -> Get Tools and Features…

This will directly open the Visual Studio installer.