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Last Updated : 06 Mar, 2025
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Installing and setting up Visual Studio is the first step for developers to build, compile, and run C# applications. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced programmer, Visual Studio provides a powerful integrated development environment (IDE) for writing and debugging C# code. With Visual Studio, you can develop a wide range of applications, including desktop, web, and mobile applications, using C# and .NET.

Download and Install Visual Studio – Windows Operating System

Visual Studio is a powerful IDE that is maintained and developed by Microsoft. The Visual Studio 2022 edition is only available on the Windows operating system, and we need to have Windows version 10 or a higher version in our system. It will not support versions earlier than Windows 10, like Windows 8, 7, or earlier versions.

Step 1: Go to the official website and download the community version Visual Studio Community Version. It will download a .exe file.

VisualStudioCommunityEdition

Step 2: Go to Downloads, and open the VisualStudioSetup.exe file, double click on it and follow the instructions as mentioned below.

Downloadss

Step 3: After running the .exe file it will also which workload we want to choose workload, here we are using .NET desktop development for C# click on it and then press the install button.

DotnetDesktopDevelopmentVSIDE

Now, it will take some time to install with the chosen workloads.

Installation

Step 4: After installing, now open Visual Studio by clicking on the windows key then write Visual Studio and click on the open as shown in the image.

OpenVisualStudio

Step 5: Open it and it will be prompted to sign in for the first time. The sign-in step is optional so it can be skipped.

SignUp

Step 6: The dialog box will appear for the first time only and ask to choose Development Settings and colour theme. Once select the required options, click on the Start Visual Studio option as shown below :

ThemeVisualStudio

Step 7: Now it asking for the project, there are multiple options like we can take remote repositories, and clicking on Create a new project.

CreateNewProject

Step 8: Now choose the console app for .Net Framework as shown in the below image

OpenVsCodeSelectConsole

Step 9: Now configure the project path we can just set for default give the name of the project.

ConfigureProjectGiveName

Step 10: It will create a template of predefined code now we can execute it by clicking on the start button.

RunTheAPPLICationgUsingStart

Step 11: Now, we can see the output on the console app.

OutputInConsoleWindow

Note: As per now the Visual Studio IDE is only availabe for the windows os but we can also run the basic programs of the C# using visual studio code with the extensions.



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