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Installing Visual Studio

Explore the process of setting up Visual Studio on Windows and installing the .NET SDK on Linux. Understand how to create a new C# console application, manage SDK versions, and configure your development environment to build efficient cross-platform projects.

Visual Studio setup (Windows)

Although this course does not require a local Visual Studio installation, we recommend downloading it from the official website to practice local development. The Community version is free and will be sufficient for almost all of our purposes, except commercial development.

Downloading Visual Studio
Downloading Visual Studio

Launch the installer after the download finishes. The next window asks what workloads we want to install along with the IDE. ...