Search for “console” to filter down to just console applications. If you selected more installation options in the first steps of this guide, you’ll be absolutely swimming in them. There are definitely a lot of project templates to sift through. You can remap them, but really how often are you going to be creating new projects to justify a handy shortcut? Confirm successful repository creation. Yes, there are keyboard shortcuts to do this, but they’re not very convenient. Initiate the Project Creation Wizard by clicking File –> New –> Project. Confirm that the repository now shows in the “Local Git Repositories” section of the Team Explorer. The repository is ready to go, but it’s empty. Go to top Create Project In New Git Repository Used properly, extensions have the potential to boost your productivity and development efficiency. While it’s downloading, you can check out our article on 5 Essential Visual Studio Extensions. Select what you want but beware the download sizes. Some of these options can increase the download size by 5+ GB.

Feel free to opt in to anything else you think looks interesting but be aware that you will have to download everything. This guide only uses the “.NET Core cross-platform development” group and its required dependencies. It’s much, much better than it used to be, so let’s all take a moment of silence to appreciate that.Īnyway, you’re not going to need the thousands of options that are available to you during the initial installation process. Microsoft recently overhauled the installation process. Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition (not to be confused with Visual Studio Code). We suggest the Community Edition because you won’t need any of the features offered by the pricier (and they can be pricey) tiers. Read our pricing guide for more detailed comparisons between editions. This guide only uses Visual Studio 2019.ĭownload Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition (free). That said, don’t confuse Visual Studio 2019 with Visual Studio Code.

There was a period of time when everything was named with the Visual Studio prefix.

Microsoft sometimes has weird ways of naming their products (Azure DevOps, we’re looking at you).

Use visual studio