How do you install Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 with minimal features?

Question

The reason I ask is I want a small installation size and I only use the product for writing code for school work. I will not need 3rd party software, web capability, or integration with other software and applications.

Answer 1

In a comment now you requested for "command line to run the web installer in a certain predefined way say only download and install visual studio core editor and.net components". BTW, the recommendation including installing .NET components was a part of my original answer- now I splitted the answers, one for minimal install and this one for what you requested secondly, including .NET Visual Studio components:

The command line to install core and .net minimal is:

vs_xxxx.exe --layout %CD%\vs2017offline --lang en-US --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktop

(set your individual downloaded .exe name for 'vs_xxxx.exe', my downloaded name was for example 'vs_enterprise__873301792.1489161815.exe')