Download and Install visual studio and preparing our IDE on windows 11

Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs, as well as websites, web apps, web services and mobile apps, Games, etc.

Last updated : Oct 03, 2021

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Introduction to Visual Studio

Visual Studio is an Integrated Development Environment(IDE) developed by Microsoft to develop GUI(Graphical User Interface), console, Web applications, web apps, mobile apps, cloud, and web services, etc. With the help of this IDE, you can create managed code as well as native code. It uses the various platforms of Microsoft software development software.

It is not a language-specific IDE as you can use this to write code in C#, C++, VB(Visual Basic), Python, JavaScript, and many more languages. It provides support for 36 different programming languages. It is available for Windows as well as for macOS.

Visual Studio Editions

There are 3 editions of Microsoft Visual Studio as follows:

Community: It is a free version.
Professional: It is the commercial edition of Visual Studio.
Enterprise: It is an integrated, end to end solution for teams of any size.

Since, Community edition is for FREE, we are using it. If you want, you can also purchase visual studio professional edition or enterprise according to your need. But Community edition is OK for our purpose. Before getting started, we need to have visual studio installed on our computer.

Downloadin and Installing Visual Studio

Step 1: Download visual studio

Firstly, Download Visual Studio Community Edition from the link provided. You can find community edition of visual studio as shown in the figure.

download page of visual studio

From here, you just have to click on Free download underneeth of Community. Currently as of 2021 october 1st you can see visual studio 2019 is a stable released of Visual Studio with version 16.11

Step 2: Start download process

After download is completed launch visual studio installer

visual studio installer premission

Click on continue to download visual studio installer, where you can manage different version of visual studio in one place. After pressing continue it will download installer like below.

visual studio installer downloading

Step 3: Select components to install in current version

Now, you have to select your requirement to be installed in current version of visual studio. So for beginner you can select .Net desktop development. And all other are optional. Don't select everything if you don't need them strongly. Because it also increase download and install size. Finally after selecting your requirement, click on Install.

selecting download content of visual studio

Step 4: Download progress

After clicking on install, visual studio installer will start downloading and installing the selected components on you computer.

downloading visual studio

Finally the installation is completed and visual studio will open automatically, if not then you can find it on start menu.

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