From the course: Visual Studio 2019 Essential Training

Choose the workloads and components - Visual Studio Tutorial

From the course: Visual Studio 2019 Essential Training

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Choose the workloads and components

- [Instructor] Now that I've downloaded the installer to 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. It's going to download some files from the internet. This process could take a while. And eventually the installer is installed on the computer and now it's time to work with your workloads. 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, if 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 them all by just unchecking the workload. I can have even more fine tune 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 US English, go to the Language pack section and pick your language. You can also modify the installation locations. Now back here on this screen, I've got nothing checked in the workload so 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. Let's choose some of them from this list. ASP.NET, Azure, .NET, C++, Universal Windows, and .NET Core. Now there are 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 that 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. So, 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 the 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 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 an option in here and eventually, when they're all installed, you'd go over to this Installed 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'd go to this screen and you'd see that there's 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. Now that the install is finished, there's one additional component you should add. I didn't select it before starting the install process but you'll need it to compile some of the course examples. You'll find it in Installation details. Here in the .NET Core section, you need to add a check mark here for .NET Core 2.2. Then go ahead and modify the installation and then you'll be ready to move on to the next video.

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