If you've already installed Visual Studio, then you can go ahead and

skip to the next video.

In this video, I'll walk you through the installation and

explain some of the options.

To install the free edition of Visual Studio,

you'll need to open this page in a web browser.

There's a link to it in the teacher's notes.

I want to go over a few things before we click on this download button here.

First let's click on where it says features.

I found that these links provide a good overview of it's capabilities.

You should check those out if you're curious.

All right, click out of that.

Let's scroll down to where it says usage.

This explains who can use Visual Studio for free.

You should read through this to make sure that you

are permitted to use the free edition.

As an individual student you are probably well within the limits of these terms.

Next, let's scroll down and click on System requirements here under Resources.

And then Visual Studio Community 2015.

You should make sure that your computer meets or

exceeds these system requirements.

Visual Studio is not a trivial piece of software.

The requirements listed here are the bare minimum.

The oldest OS supported is Windows 7 Service Pack 1.

If you're developing Windows Store, or

Windows Universal Apps, you'll need to be running at least Windows 8.1.

Finally, if you're running Windows 7, you'll need to have Internet Explorer

version 10 or above installed on your computer.

If that all looks good let's start installing.

So, we'll go back to the first page.

Scroll up, and click Download Community 2015.

This downloads a small file on your computer.

This is only the web installer, what it does is goes out and

downloads all of the other parts.

So go ahead and run that installer.

And click run.

Alright, so now we're in the Visual Studio installer.

You can select a place to install it, but I highly recommend that you

don't change this location unless you have a really good reason for doing so.

You'll see we have two options to pick from here.

Typical and custom.

Typical will install everything you need to do classic Windows apps and

most web development using ASP.NET.

Custom let's you pick from a large selection of additional features

and tools.

Let's take a minute to look at what we have here.

I'll explain what most of these are, but I recommend not installing them right now

unless you know for sure that you'll be needing them.

They'll just make the installation take longer.

The latest version of Visual Studio has made it very easy

to add most of these things later after the base IDE is installed.

Also, Microsoft may add more options to this list in the future, so

don't be surprised if you see something different in this list.

C# and Visual Basic are both already installed.

You can add project types and tools for C++, F#, and Python though.

Here's some tools for Windows and web development.

ClickOnce is used to make simple installers and

push out updates to Windows desktop applications.

The SQL Server Data Tools provide a subset of the features that are found in

Microsoft SQL server management studio software.

If you're doing any web development at all, you'll want the Web Developer Tools.

PowerShell Tools are used for developing PowerShell scripts and modules.

Silverlight is Microsoft's answer to Adobe's Flash for

interactive web applications.

Advances in modern web application develop using HTLM5 and

JavaScript has motivated Microsoft to deprecate Silverlight and

they don't recommend using it for any new projects.

Universal Windows App Development Tools are used to develop apps than can run on

any Windows 10 device.

This includes Windows 10 desktop or any of the Windows 10 mobile devices.

The Windows Phone 8 tools are required to make Windows Phone 8 apps, but with

the release of Windows 10, you probably won't be doing any new apps using this.

Cross Platform Mobile Development features are used for

developing apps that can run on Apple's iOS, Google's Android, and Windows Phones.

In Visual Studio, you have three different cross platform

app development methodologies to choose from.

Xamarin, you write your apps in C#.

Apache Cordova allows you to develop your apps using HTML and JavaScript.

This is especially handy for web developers who want to make mobile apps.

The third method is to write your apps using C++.

These apps run right on the device hardware so they are potentially faster

and more battery efficient than apps written in Java, C#, or JavaScript.

These other tools and SDK's are used for various types of Android app development.

Under Common Tools, we have a couple of tools that are used with the popular Git

version control system.

Last of all, the Visual Studio Extensibility Tools are used for

creating extensions to Visual Studio.

If you choose Typical install, then you can expect

installation to take about 20 minutes, depending on your internet connection.

Of course, selecting some of these options can make it take longer.

Because the installer needs to download everything from the internet,

your computer should have a constant internet connection for the duration.

Now let's click Next and then Yes on the security message.

This is the part where the installer is downloading and installing everything.

If for some reason the installer wants you to restart your computer,

then just restart and run the installer again.

I'm going to fast forward the video through this part.

Alright, Visual Studio is installed.

You can launch it right now by clicking the LAUNCH button.