On first of April 2019, Microsoft released the latest version of Visual Studio 2019, the #1 Software Development Environment (SDK) in the world.
I can say a lot about VS, but I think it knew how good it is.
In this blog post, I will show you the installation steps which are not complicated but there a few things you need to know.
Get Started
In my case, I have Visual Studio 2017 already installed on my machine, and I am going to also install VS 2019.
VS 2019 can be installed side by side next to the previous version of VS.
The main reason I decided to install VS 2019 is that it supports .NET Core 3.0 (Preview mode) and I would like to test some of my apps before the official release.
VS 2019 comes in three editions:
- Community – Free for non-commercial use
- Professional – Paid version and the one I am installing
- Enterprise – Paid version
To get started, I have downloaded the VS 2019 installer from the Visual Studio website and started the installation as shown below.
From the components screen, I have selected almost all the workloads which come to 16GB disk space.
Please note, that it doesn’t matter if you have previous versions installed, VS will still install the workloads.
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After selecting the workload, the entire process is set and forget and can take an hour.
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When the process is completed, I have started VS 2019 and as shown below, the interface completely different compared to VS 2017.
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When clicking on create a new project, you will see a completely different experience, which I think is much better than before.
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In the next few articles, I will continue to explore VS 2019 and .NET Core.