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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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