You can use Windows 7 SP1 or later to complete most of the chapters in this book, but you will have a better experience if you use Windows 10.
Since October 2014, Microsoft has made a professional-quality edition of Visual Studio available to everyone for free. It is called the Community Edition.
Download and install Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 from the following link:https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/
On the Workloads tab, choose the following, as partially shown in the following screenshot:
On the Individual components tab, choose the following additional components, as shown in the following screenshot:
Click Install, and wait for the installer to acquire the selected software, and install it, as shown in the following screenshot:
When the installation is complete, click Launch.
The first time that you run Visual Studio 2017, you will be prompted to sign in. If you have a Microsoft account, for example, a Hotmail, MSN, Live, or Outlook e-mail address, you can use that account. If you don't, then register for a new one at the following link: https://signup.live.com/.
When starting Visual Studio 2017 for the first time, you will be prompted to configure your environment. For Development Settings, choose Visual C#. For color theme, I chose Blue, but you can choose whatever suits you, as shown in the following screenshot:
You will see the Microsoft Visual Studio user interface with the Start Page open in the central area. Like most Windows desktop applications, Visual Studio has a menu bar, a toolbar for common commands, and a status bar at the bottom. On the right is the Solution Explorer that will list your open projects:
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