Acquiring tools and features by using In-Product Acquisition

Visual Studio 2017 makes it easier to acquire any missing components using In-Product Acquisition. Using this, you don't have to leave the IDE to start the installer. Using the Quick Launch search bar, you can kick off the installer to start an in-product acquisition of any workload or individual component. Consider the following screenshot:

The preceding image shows us how to use Visual Studio to acquire a Universal Windows Platform development workflow and other related components. This will directly launch the installer and proceed towards the installation of said workflow.

If you cannot find the templates that you are looking for, the Visual Studio 2017 installer can also be opened from the New Project dialog box, as shown in the following screenshot: