Installation

If you've already installed Visual Studio, then you can go ahead and 0:00 skip to the next video. 0:04 In this video, I'll walk you through the installation and 0:06 explain some of the options. 0:08 To install the free edition of Visual Studio, 0:11 you'll need to open this page in a web browser. 0:13 There's a link to it in the teacher's notes. 0:16 I want to go over a few things before we click on this download button here. 0:18 First let's click on where it says features. 0:22 I found that these links provide a good overview of it's capabilities. 0:25 You should check those out if you're curious. 0:29 All right, click out of that. 0:31 Let's scroll down to where it says usage. 0:33 This explains who can use Visual Studio for free. 0:39 You should read through this to make sure that you 0:41 are permitted to use the free edition. 0:44 As an individual student you are probably well within the limits of these terms. 0:46 Next, let's scroll down and click on System requirements here under Resources. 0:51 And then Visual Studio Community 2015. 0:56 You should make sure that your computer meets or 0:59 exceeds these system requirements. 1:03 Visual Studio is not a trivial piece of software. 1:05 The requirements listed here are the bare minimum. 1:08 The oldest OS supported is Windows 7 Service Pack 1. 1:12 If you're developing Windows Store, or 1:16 Windows Universal Apps, you'll need to be running at least Windows 8.1. 1:18 Finally, if you're running Windows 7, you'll need to have Internet Explorer 1:22 version 10 or above installed on your computer. 1:28 If that all looks good let's start installing. 1:32 So, we'll go back to the first page. 1:35 Scroll up, and click Download Community 2015. 1:39 This downloads a small file on your computer. 1:44 This is only the web installer, what it does is goes out and 1:49 downloads all of the other parts. 1:53 So go ahead and run that installer. 1:55 And click run. 1:57 Alright, so now we're in the Visual Studio installer. 2:05 You can select a place to install it, but I highly recommend that you 2:08 don't change this location unless you have a really good reason for doing so. 2:11 You'll see we have two options to pick from here. 2:16 Typical and custom. 2:18 Typical will install everything you need to do classic Windows apps and 2:20 most web development using ASP.NET. 2:23 Custom let's you pick from a large selection of additional features 2:26 and tools. 2:30 Let's take a minute to look at what we have here. 2:31 I'll explain what most of these are, but I recommend not installing them right now 2:34 unless you know for sure that you'll be needing them. 2:38 They'll just make the installation take longer. 2:40 The latest version of Visual Studio has made it very easy 2:42 to add most of these things later after the base IDE is installed. 2:45 Also, Microsoft may add more options to this list in the future, so 2:49 don't be surprised if you see something different in this list. 2:53 C# and Visual Basic are both already installed. 2:56 You can add project types and tools for C++, F#, and Python though. 3:00 Here's some tools for Windows and web development. 3:04 ClickOnce is used to make simple installers and 3:08 push out updates to Windows desktop applications. 3:10 The SQL Server Data Tools provide a subset of the features that are found in 3:13 Microsoft SQL server management studio software. 3:17 If you're doing any web development at all, you'll want the Web Developer Tools. 3:20 PowerShell Tools are used for developing PowerShell scripts and modules. 3:24 Silverlight is Microsoft's answer to Adobe's Flash for 3:28 interactive web applications. 3:33 Advances in modern web application develop using HTLM5 and 3:35 JavaScript has motivated Microsoft to deprecate Silverlight and 3:39 they don't recommend using it for any new projects. 3:43 Universal Windows App Development Tools are used to develop apps than can run on 3:46 any Windows 10 device. 3:50 This includes Windows 10 desktop or any of the Windows 10 mobile devices. 3:52 The Windows Phone 8 tools are required to make Windows Phone 8 apps, but with 3:57 the release of Windows 10, you probably won't be doing any new apps using this. 4:02 Cross Platform Mobile Development features are used for 4:06 developing apps that can run on Apple's iOS, Google's Android, and Windows Phones. 4:11 In Visual Studio, you have three different cross platform 4:16 app development methodologies to choose from. 4:20 Xamarin, you write your apps in C#. 4:23 Apache Cordova allows you to develop your apps using HTML and JavaScript. 4:25 This is especially handy for web developers who want to make mobile apps. 4:31 The third method is to write your apps using C++. 4:36 These apps run right on the device hardware so they are potentially faster 4:40 and more battery efficient than apps written in Java, C#, or JavaScript. 4:44 These other tools and SDK's are used for various types of Android app development. 4:49 Under Common Tools, we have a couple of tools that are used with the popular Git 4:54 version control system. 4:58 Last of all, the Visual Studio Extensibility Tools are used for 5:00 creating extensions to Visual Studio. 5:04 If you choose Typical install, then you can expect 5:07 installation to take about 20 minutes, depending on your internet connection. 5:09 Of course, selecting some of these options can make it take longer. 5:14 Because the installer needs to download everything from the internet, 5:17 your computer should have a constant internet connection for the duration. 5:20 Now let's click Next and then Yes on the security message. 5:24 This is the part where the installer is downloading and installing everything. 5:28 If for some reason the installer wants you to restart your computer, 5:32 then just restart and run the installer again. 5:36 I'm going to fast forward the video through this part. 5:38 Alright, Visual Studio is installed. 5:41 You can launch it right now by clicking the LAUNCH button. 5:44