Visual Studio - Installation Tutorial
Visual Studio - Installation Tutorial
In this article, I am going to explain how to download and install Visual Studio 2022
Version 17.0, step by step, and create a simple .NET 6.0 Console application.
Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.0 supports .Net 6.0 applications. Here we have
downloaded and install Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.0 Community edition.
Step 1
You can download and install Visual Studio 2022 version 17.0 from this link.
Step 2
Click the "Download" button for downloading the VS 2022 executable file on the
downloaded path.
Step 3
Open your systems download path and find the .exe file.
Step 4
Double-click the .exe file, the Visual Studio installer window will open. Click "Continue".
Step 5
Downloading and installing the progress bar window will open after clicking the continue
button.
Step 6
Step 7
After selecting the desired packages, just click the “Install” button to install.
Step 8
Once the installation is completed. Visual Studio 2022 lunched for the first time.
Step 9
It will load your existing Visual Studio profile. It may also ask you to login into your
Microsoft account. If you don’t have a Microsoft account, you can create a new account.
The sign-in step is optional so it can be skipped. But, don’t skip this! Sign in with your
Gmail / Microsoft account so that you can activate Visual Studio and get a lifetime
license for Free.
If you have no account then click Not now, Maybe later.
Step 10
Once done, you will be asked to choose the Development Settings and color theme.
1. Select a color theme of your choice, here we have selected the Blue theme and by
default Development Settings select General.
2. Select Start Visual Studio
Step 11
After selecting the required options, click on the Start Visual Studio option. We can see
a newly designed landing page of Visual Studio where we see a list of recent projects.
We can also clone or check out the code from GitHub and Azure DevOps. We can open
a project or solution and a folder. Also, we can create a new project.
Creating Your First Project
Click on Create a new Project to create a new project.
You can see various project types there. Choose “Console Application” project type for
now.
Give a valid name to your project and select a path for it. Then click Next button.