How to Download and Install Microsoft Visual Studio
In order to code in C#, we need to download and install the latest stable release(a stable version) of
Microsoft Visual Studio,
which is an integrated development environment(IDE) from Microsoft.
It is used to code in C# and develop computer programs, websites, web apps, mobile apps, etc.
At the time of writing this article, the latest release of Microsoft Visual Studio is 2019 16.4.3,
which could be downloaded from the official
Microsoft Visual Studio website.
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When you open the official
Microsoft Visual Studio website, you displayed a few versions of Visual Studio to choose from i.e.
Community, Professional, Enterprise. We need click on the Free Download button under the Community version of Visual Studio,
as shown in the picture below with a red arrow.
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Clicking on the download button takes you to a new webpage, with a message Thank you for downloading Visual Studio, your download will start shortly.
(as shown in the picture below).
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Within a few seconds, a new window will pop-up on your screen, asking you Save the file or Cancel,
please click on Save to download and save it.
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Double-click on the downloaded file and you will be displayed a window, as shown below, please click on the Continue button displayed on it.
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At the top of the next window, we see 4 sections -
Workloads - It displays us the different workloads to download, such as - ASP.NET and web development, Azure development,
Python development, etc.
Individual components
Language packs
Installation Locations.
We need to skip the Workloads and
click on the second section i.e. Individual Components(as shown in the picture below), to download the
individual useful components, which will be enough to develop in C#.
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On clicking the Individual Components, you will be displayed a different window with many components to choose from.
As, we only need to download associated with development in C#, so we need to type in C#
in the text box(as shown in the picture below), which gives us 4 components to choose from:
C# and Visual Basic Roslyn Compiler
IncrediBuild - Build Acceleration
MSBuild
C# and Visual Basic
We need to select the option C# and Visual Basic Roslyn Compiler, which automatically selects the option
C# and Visual Basic and finally, we need to click on the Install button(as shown in the picture below).
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On clicking the Install button, you see a new window, though which the installer wants to confirm if you want to
continue downloading and installing only
the individual components that you have selected or do you want to Add Workloads.
Click on the Continue button(as shown in the picture below).
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On clicking the Install button, you see a new window, though which the installer wants to confirm if you want to
continue downloading and installing only
the individual components that you have selected or do you want to Add Workloads.
Click on the Continue button(as shown in the picture below).
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On the next window, you see the download and installation progress bar, as shown in the picture below.
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And this will successfully download and install
the components of Microsoft Visual Studio, which are required to develop applications in C#.
Note: One of the main downloaded components
which are going useful when you are coding in C# is the Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio,
it allows us to compile and execute our C# programs.
In the next tutorial, we are going to
show you to create your first program in C# by using the download components of Microsoft Visual Studio.
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