Introduction
This article explains the process of Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition 2015 installation.
Steps for Installation
Step 1
We can download Visual Studio Community Edition 2015 from the following the link. After entering the Visual Studio download page, click “Free download” from Visual Studio Community menu.
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Step 2
Now, you will be redirected to another page with a pop up showing you the VS package name. Click on "Save File" anr the “vs_community_ENU__266050523.1487883645.exe” will be downloaded. Now, it will ask for save location; jus select a location and click "Save".
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Step 3
Double click “vs_community_ENU__266050523.1487883645.exe” and click "Run".
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Step 4
Select your installation location and type of installation. If you want to install all features, select default; if you want to install specified features, select custom. Finally, click the "Install" button.
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Step 5
You can see the two progress bars for Acquiring and Applying, as shown in below screenshot. It will take some time to finish the installation.
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Step 6
The "finished installation screen" will look like below. Just click "Restart Now". Your system will be restarted.
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Step 7
After the restart, go to Start button >> All programs >> double click Visual Studio 2015.
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Step 8
Visual Studio 2015 will open. We can sign in using Hotmail or Outlook mail Id. If you want to use it without signing in, just click “Not now, maybe later”.
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Step 9
Now, the development settings are selected “General” by default. If needed, we can change that based on our requirement. Finally, chose color themes and click "Start Visual Studio".
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Step 10
It will take few minutes to open Visual Studio for the first time. We can see the below screenshots.
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Step 11
Now, we can see the full view. It looks like the below screenshot.
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Conclusion
This article explained the installation process of Visual Studio 2015. We can follow the same steps to install Visual Studio 2017 Professional and Enterprise edition.