Re: It's a sad story actually...
they stuck on 2010 because that did what they wanted, and even had a good color scheme.
I have to agree here. Visual Studio 2010 was ~2 GB, and ~ 600 MB for the Express Edition's ISO (across four language editions, making VB Express as light as 200 MB!)
Visual Basic 2017 is 6 GB as downloaded from Microsoft Imagine.
And they've fucked up the installer hard. Instead of a single ISO, they've gone all Visual-Studio-as-a-Service and chopped it up like a fruit in Fruit Ninja.
Today's excuse? To keep every single component up to date.