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Learn how to install Visual Studio and about each installation option.
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If you've already installed Visual Studio, then you can go ahead and
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skip to the next video.
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In this video, I'll walk you through the installation and
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explain some of the options.
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To install the free edition of Visual Studio,
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you'll need to open this page in a web browser.
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There's a link to it in the teacher's notes.
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I want to go over a few things before we click on this download button here.
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First let's click on where it says features.
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I found that these links provide a good overview of it's capabilities.
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You should check those out if you're curious.
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All right, click out of that.
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Let's scroll down to where it says usage.
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This explains who can use Visual Studio for free.
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You should read through this to make sure that you
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are permitted to use the free edition.
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As an individual student you are probably well within the limits of these terms.
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Next, let's scroll down and click on System requirements here under Resources.
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And then Visual Studio Community 2015.
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You should make sure that your computer meets or
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exceeds these system requirements.
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Visual Studio is not a trivial piece of software.
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The requirements listed here are the bare minimum.
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The oldest OS supported is Windows 7 Service Pack 1.
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If you're developing Windows Store, or
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Windows Universal Apps, you'll need to be running at least Windows 8.1.
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Finally, if you're running Windows 7, you'll need to have Internet Explorer
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version 10 or above installed on your computer.
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If that all looks good let's start installing.
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So, we'll go back to the first page.
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Scroll up, and click Download Community 2015.
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This downloads a small file on your computer.
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This is only the web installer, what it does is goes out and
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downloads all of the other parts.
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So go ahead and run that installer.
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And click run.
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Alright, so now we're in the Visual Studio installer.
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You can select a place to install it, but I highly recommend that you
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don't change this location unless you have a really good reason for doing so.
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You'll see we have two options to pick from here.
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Typical and custom.
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Typical will install everything you need to do classic Windows apps and
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most web development using ASP.NET.
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Custom let's you pick from a large selection of additional features
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and tools.
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Let's take a minute to look at what we have here.
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I'll explain what most of these are, but I recommend not installing them right now
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unless you know for sure that you'll be needing them.
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They'll just make the installation take longer.
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The latest version of Visual Studio has made it very easy
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to add most of these things later after the base IDE is installed.
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Also, Microsoft may add more options to this list in the future, so
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don't be surprised if you see something different in this list.
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C# and Visual Basic are both already installed.
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You can add project types and tools for C++, F#, and Python though.
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Here's some tools for Windows and web development.
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ClickOnce is used to make simple installers and
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push out updates to Windows desktop applications.
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The SQL Server Data Tools provide a subset of the features that are found in
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Microsoft SQL server management studio software.
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If you're doing any web development at all, you'll want the Web Developer Tools.
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PowerShell Tools are used for developing PowerShell scripts and modules.
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Silverlight is Microsoft's answer to Adobe's Flash for
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interactive web applications.
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Advances in modern web application develop using HTLM5 and
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JavaScript has motivated Microsoft to deprecate Silverlight and
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they don't recommend using it for any new projects.
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Universal Windows App Development Tools are used to develop apps than can run on
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any Windows 10 device.
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This includes Windows 10 desktop or any of the Windows 10 mobile devices.
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The Windows Phone 8 tools are required to make Windows Phone 8 apps, but with
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the release of Windows 10, you probably won't be doing any new apps using this.
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Cross Platform Mobile Development features are used for
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developing apps that can run on Apple's iOS, Google's Android, and Windows Phones.
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In Visual Studio, you have three different cross platform
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app development methodologies to choose from.
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Xamarin, you write your apps in C#.
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Apache Cordova allows you to develop your apps using HTML and JavaScript.
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This is especially handy for web developers who want to make mobile apps.
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The third method is to write your apps using C++.
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These apps run right on the device hardware so they are potentially faster
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and more battery efficient than apps written in Java, C#, or JavaScript.
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These other tools and SDK's are used for various types of Android app development.
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Under Common Tools, we have a couple of tools that are used with the popular Git
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version control system.
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Last of all, the Visual Studio Extensibility Tools are used for
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creating extensions to Visual Studio.
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If you choose Typical install, then you can expect
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installation to take about 20 minutes, depending on your internet connection.
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Of course, selecting some of these options can make it take longer.
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Because the installer needs to download everything from the internet,
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your computer should have a constant internet connection for the duration.
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Now let's click Next and then Yes on the security message.
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This is the part where the installer is downloading and installing everything.
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If for some reason the installer wants you to restart your computer,
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then just restart and run the installer again.
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I'm going to fast forward the video through this part.
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Alright, Visual Studio is installed.
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You can launch it right now by clicking the LAUNCH button.
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