Different types of IDEs are available for coding C#.NET. Visual Studio Community is one of them. The way of downloading and configuring Visual Studio Community to start programming using C#.NET has been shown in this tutorial.
Download Visual Studio Community:
Go the following URL address to download Visual Studio Community IDE software.
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/
Install the IDE:
Run the downloaded installer file of the IDE to install it on the Windows.
The following window will appear after pressing the Continue button. It will require sometimes to complete the downloading and installing tasks.
The following window will appear after completing the installation of the IDE. Select the “ASP.NET and Web development” and “.NET Desktop development” options and click on the Install button to start the installation of the required packages to learn the implementation of the Web and Desktop application using C#.NET.
The following window will appear and it will require sometimes to complete the installation.
Run the IDE:
Click on the Launch button to open the application.
The following window will appear after clicking the Launch button. Click the “Skip this for now” link to open he next window.
Here, select your desired theme and click on the Start Visual Studio button.
Now, you can open any existing project or create a new project or clone a repository or continue without code.
If you press the “Continue without code” link then the following window will appear.
Click on the File -> New Project menu item to open the following window. Select the Console App and press on the Next button.
Type the Project name, select the project location, and press on the Next button.
Select the Framework version and press on the Create button.
By default a C# file will open with the following code.
Console.WriteLine("Hello World");
The following output will appear after executing the code.
How to create a C#.NET project or create a simple C# file will be shown in a video soon. Thank you for reading.