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Setup packages

- [Instructor] Now that I've downloaded the Installer from my desktop folder, I'll find the executable and double-click on it to run the Installer. You can see I've got two copies here, I've got the Professional edition and the Enterprise edition, both of these installers. I'll double-click on the Enterprise one. Then I see this dialog, asking me to set up a few things, I'll click on Continue. Its going to download some files from the Internet, this process could take a while. Let's take a look at some of the features on this Installer. At the very top of the screen, you can see which version of Visual Studio I'm installing. I'm installing Enterprise 2019 version 16.1.0. Here in the Workload section, I choose the large sections of functionality that I want to install. For instance, do you want to enable .net development, you'd click here, and that adds all these packages. And of course this is changeable, I can remove one of these packages if I want to, or I can add additional packages, like that. And I can remove 'em all by just unchecking the Workload. I can have even more fine-tuning control in individual components, so I can come in here and choose different individual parts of the Installer to work with. For example, let's say I'm working in .net, and I need an older version of the .net framework. I could choose that here. If you're not working in U.S. English, go to the language pack section and pick your language, and you can also modify the installation locations. Now back here on this screen, I've got nothing checked in the Workloads. That means this is the minimum smallest install I can do with Visual Studio, it's at 616 megabytes. Now if you're following along with this course, you'll need some of these other Workloads. So let's choose some of them from this list. ASP.NET, Azure, .NET, C++, Universal Windows, and .NET Core. Now there's some other Workloads I like. I do a lot of office development, so I would usually check this one, but I won't be showing that in this course. There's also some cool stuff here with the Game Development with Unity, this is nice if you're working with the Unity game engine, and you want to edit your code, you can have it so the code editor switches over to Visual Studio. At this point, I've added some extra features, and you can see the total space required is now at 22.59 gigabytes. I'm ready to make my install, I can choose several options here, Install while downloading or Download everything and then install, I'll choose this first option. Now let's click on Modify, it might say Modify or Install on your version depending on whether it's the first time you're running the Installer. That takes me over to this page, which is the Installer, remember you install the Installer, and then the Installer starts installing the components of Visual Studio. So let's take what's interesting on this page. I can see what's installed, right now I only have, I don't even have Visual Studio Enterprise installed yet, but later, as I install other copies of Visual Studio those would show up on this page. And also I can see available updates. One of the interesting things about the way this Installer works, is that it's the same Installer for Community and for Professional and for Enterprise, which means if later I download the Professional edition and run this executable, it's going to use this same Installer. And I can Install the Community edition, and the Professional and the Enterprise edition all side-by-side on the same computer. It also works with Visual Studio 2017, so I could, if for any reason I need to install Visual Studio 2017, I go to the website, download a copy of that Installer, run it, and that would appear as a option in here. And eventually, when they're all Installed, you'd go over to this Instal screen and you'd see each of the individual Visual Studios here, and this is also where you update. Let's say there's an update issued for 2017, and there isn't one for 2019, you go to this screen and you'd see that there is a update available. This is going to take a while, so I'll stop the video here, and we'll resume when the application is Installed.

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