Installation

You can download the free Community edition of the integrated development environment, Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition, from the official website: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/.

Fig. 3.2. Microsoft Visual Studio 2026 Website

For the development in this chapter we will use Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition 2026; during installation be sure to select the WinUI application development workload/option.

Fig. 3.3. WinUI workload selection during installation

Selecting additional developer tools increases the disk space required to install the IDE.

Proceed with the installation and wait for it to complete; the process may take a considerable amount of time.

Fig. 3.4. Visual Studio Installation