# 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/>.

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*Fig. 4.2. 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 **.NET Multi-platform App UI development** workload/option.

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*Fig. 4.3. MAUI 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.

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*Fig. 4.4. Visual Studio Installation*