Installation

A free version of the integrated development environment called Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition can be downloaded from the company's official website at: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/.

Fig. 1.11. Microsoft Visual Studio Website

This chapter uses Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition 2022.

A default (standard) installation requires a modest 1.39 GB of free disk space, but that includes only the IDE editor and basic collaboration tools.

For developing Universal Windows applications you should enable the Universal Windows Platform development workload (Fig. 1.12), and for developing cross-platform mobile applications enable Mobile development with .NET (Fig. 1.13)

Fig. 1.12. Visual Studio Installer: Universal Windows Platform development

Fig. 1.13. Visual Studio Installer: Mobile development with .NET

Additional developer tools increase the required disk space for installing Visual Studio. Approximately 20.87 GB of free disk space is required (Fig. 1.14).

Fig. 1.14. Visual Studio Setup

Continue and wait for the installation to complete. The procedure may take a significant amount of time.

Fig. 1.15. Visual Studio Installer