Setting up the environment

In this section, we will see step by step how to initiate the installation of Visual Studio 2017 (preferably, the community edition) on Windows 10:

1. Go to https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/ (you can also get the benefits of Dev Essentials from https://www.visualstudio.com/dev-essentials/).
2. Download Visual Studio Community (https://www.visualstudio.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=Community&rel=15):

1. Start the Visual Studio setup.

1. From Workloads, select the options you want to install. For our book, we need .NET desktop development and .NET Core:

1. Click on Install to start the installation:

1. Click Launch once the installation is completed.
2. Sign up for Visual Studio using your Live ID.
3. Select Visual C# as your development setting.
4. You will see the start page as follows:

We are all set to start with our first step.