Visual Studio Community Installation And Setup

Quick reference

• 00:00 Okay in this video we're going to talk about the tools that we need for
• 00:05 this course.
• 00:07 And we're actually only going to need one tool, Visual Studio,
• 00:10 specifically Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition.
• 00:13 Now we're going to be using 2019's version,
• 00:15 if there's a new version out by the time you watch this video,
• 00:18 no big deal, just download whatever the latest version is, that's fine.
• 00:21 But we're going to be using 2019, and that's what we're going to download and
• 00:24 install in this video.
• 00:25 So head over to Google or your favorite search engine, and let's search for
• 00:29 Visual Studio.
• 00:32 I can give you the link, but links change from time to time.
• 00:36 So, the best thing to do is just go to Google and type this in.
• 00:38 And we can click on this thing.
• 00:39 And here's the website visualstudio.microsoft.com.
• 00:42 And you can see there's several different versions.
• 00:44 We've got a Visual Studio Code, you might be tempted to get that,
• 00:47 that's not what we need.
• 00:48 We want Visual Studio.
• 00:49 Now, I'm on a Windows computer.
• 00:51 If you're on a Mac, you want Visual Studio for Mac over here.
• 00:54 But, like I said, I'm on Windows computer, so, I just want Visual Studio.
• 00:57 And we can come down here and we can see there's a Community 2019 edition,
• 01:01 a Professional 2019, and an Enterprise 2019.
• 01:03 Now, these two cost money, the Community version is completely free.
• 01:07 So, go ahead and click on that.
• 01:08 And when we do, we come to this page, and
• 01:10 a couple of seconds later this little box pops up to download this thing.
• 01:12 And this is going to download a little installer,
• 01:15 it's not going to download the whole thing.
• 01:17 And we'll need to go from there and
• 01:19 pick some options in the installer that we want to install.
• 01:22 But, for now, we can just grab this thing, and save this anywhere.
• 01:25 I'm just going to save this on my desktop here.
• 01:27 So, I'll go ahead and save that.
• 01:29 And it's a very small file, so, it should download very quickly.
• 01:31 Now, I'm on the Firefox browser, so, my downloads are up here.
• 01:34 If you're on Chrome, I think the downloads are down in the bottom left-hand corner.
• 01:38 Wherever your downloads are, just click that thing and go ahead and open this.
• 01:45 And when we do, this little box pops up.
• 01:48 Go ahead and click Continue, and this should just take a second or
• 01:53 two to download and install.
• 01:55 And when it finishes, this little thing should pop up.
• 01:58 So, these are the different options of things that we can install.
• 02:03 So, we can see Workloads, Individual components, Language packs, and
• 02:06 Installation location.
• 02:07 So what we want to do is come through here and click all the things that we want.
• 02:11 Well, we definitely want .NET desktop development, so, let's go ahead and
• 02:13 click this click this, stuff with C++, more C++.
• 02:15 This is the universal Windows platform development.
• 02:19 Probably not going to get into that in this course.
• 02:22 But if you wanted that, you could click it.
• 02:23 And you'll notice when you click things, down here in the bottom,
• 02:27 the total space required, just this one thing is eight and a half gigabytes.
• 02:31 We click this, now it goes up to almost 18 gigabytes, quite a big jump.
• 02:34 So, we don't actually need that for now.
• 02:37 And you can sort of come through here and look at the different things,
• 02:40 data science, here we've got Python,
• 02:42 we're not going to be doing anything with Python in this course.
• 02:44 It used to have Azure app, there it is, Azure development, that's there.
• 02:47 That's the Microsoft Cloud.
• 02:48 We're not going to be working on that in this course.
• 02:51 But if you did, there that is.
• 02:53 So, basically, we just need this one thing for now.
• 02:56 So, I'll go ahead and click that.
• 02:57 And you can come through here.
• 02:58 This is a list of individual components.
• 03:00 If you don't know what you're doing,
• 03:01 you're not going to want to mess with this.
• 03:02 But if you have a certain specific thing that your company or group or
• 03:07 project requires, you can add it, individually, here.
• 03:10 And then the language packs, we're going to be using English.
• 03:12 If you have a different language you'd like, you can go ahead and install that.
• 03:16 And finally, the installation location,
• 03:18 this is just where on your computer this is all going to be installed.
• 03:21 We don't really care, but if you do, and you want to change it,
• 03:23 you can go ahead and change it there.
• 03:25 So, okay, I'm going to go ahead and click Install.
• 03:28 Now, this is going to take a little while to install because it's going to download,
• 03:31 what was it?
• 03:31 Eight and a half gigabytes of data, so, depending on your Internet access,
• 03:35 it can be fast or slow.
• 03:36 You can see it downloads it in chunks,
• 03:38 right now it's just downloading 2.25 gigabytes.
• 03:41 So, I'm going to go ahead and pause this video,
• 03:43 we'll pick it up when this finishes downloading, and go from there.
• 03:45 Okay, so it finished installing and immediately this thing popped up.
• 03:49 So, it's asking you to sign in to Visual Studio.
• 03:51 If you have an account, you can go ahead and sign in.
• 03:53 If you want to create one, you can go ahead and create one.
• 03:56 Or you can click Not now, maybe later.
• 03:58 And then, when you do,
• 03:59 it's going to ask you, what kind of color scheme you want, right?
• 04:03 So, standard blue, and there's a dark one, there's a light one.
• 04:06 I think I'm going to go with the dark one, I just kind of like that, things pop out,
• 04:10 sort of easier to read, for me.
• 04:12 But, whatever you like, go ahead and pick that.
• 04:14 You can always change it later.
• 04:15 And then let's go ahead and click Start Visual Studio.
• 04:18 And it says, this may take a few minutes.
• 04:20 You may or may not have to restart your computer when you do this,
• 04:23 it just sort of depends.
• 04:24 And, all in all, this took about two or three minutes from start to finish,
• 04:27 while I paused the video.
• 04:28 So, it's not too bad, it didn't take too long, and we're ready to go.
• 04:31 So, in the next video we'll dive in and start to check this thing out.

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