Steps To Install Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise RC

Vidya Vrat Agarwal

Visual Studio 2017Enterprise RC

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Dinesh Gabhane7y ago
Thanks for Sharing
Mike Gears8y ago
I actually got a cheap visual studio enterprise 2017 with instructions from mysoftwarekeys.com/product/ms-visual-studio-2017-enterprise-full-retail-software
Hamid Khan9y ago
Helpful................................
Abhishek Kumar10y ago
Great..Nice article..Thanks for sharing this..
Arvind Chourasiya10y ago
Sir can you please tell me Profession and Enterprise version are free or coming with trial with 1 month, if i download Enterprise or Professional how many days it will be valid?
- Vidya Vrat Agarwal10y ago
  Arvind Chourasiya please read my article at my blog http://www.mypassionfor.net/2016/11/validity-of-visual-studio-2017-rc/
Arvind Chourasiya10y ago
Thank you sir nice artical :)
Arvind Singh10y ago
Informative, but why Microsoft is giving release everyday
- Ammar Shaukat10y ago
  Yes.. its a problem ... ...
- Arvind Singh10y ago
  Vidya Vrat Agarwal sir, yes it is the marketing strategy of Microsoft and problem for us(not including u )(developers and companies which does not have too much money). and for ur information last release was in July 20th 2015 not 2014. The final release of Visual Studio 2015 is July 20th 2015 https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2015/06/29/release-dates-and-compatibility-visual-studio-2015-and-windows-10-sdk/ The official online launch of Visual Studio 2013 is Nov 13 2013 at 10 a.m. ET. https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2013/10/17/visual-studio-2013-officially-released.aspx https://www.infoq.com/news/2013/09/vs2013RC Release date of Visual Studio 2012 There are no official dates available. but it seems 4th quarter 2012. within a year it gives new version.
- Vidya Vrat Agarwal10y ago
  Arvind Baghel I meant the RTM of VS 2015 which was in 2014; I must have mentioned that clearly. Anyways, It's tough for all (including me). Many companies are still using VS 2013 and that's fine. However, it's important to know what new features or changes are introduced in new versions; and this can be done using RC of the product. Besides, if you have MSDN account from your employer then you will have access to all Microsoft Products. Even, if you don't have that; still there is a lot which can be learned by reading and watching. Until then enjoy trying VS 2017 RC.
Debasis Saha10y ago
Thanks for this nice article...
Subash10y ago
Useful share sir is it work in all operating system
- Vidya Vrat Agarwal10y ago
  It supports right from Win7 SP1 and onwards, in my article I added link for System Requirements
Manav Pandya10y ago
Much awaited tool right here , thanks for sharing sir Vidya Vrat Agarwal
sureshbabu ch10y ago
Is this the new version of VS 2017 after Visual Studio 15 release?
- Vidya Vrat Agarwal10y ago
  sureshbabu ch Yes, you are right. it's right after VS 2015 so no VS 2016
Madhanmohan Devarajan10y ago
Thanks for sharing this useful information
Ehsan Sajjad10y ago
How much time it took to get installed ?, you said it was fastest setup..
- Ehsan Sajjad10y ago
  Wow. thats alot of ram Vidya Vrat Agarwal , hope i also have that much :)
- Vidya Vrat Agarwal10y ago
  Ehsan Sajjad I have Windows 10, 64bit, 20GB RAM I-7 2.8GHz, it took me approx 30 minutes or less. I installed most of the web, Azure and desktop components except Game and UWP and Android. So, speed will differ based on machine configuration but I trust that it's much faster setup experience than before regardless of machine configuration.
Ammar Shaukat10y ago
Great... I'm installing it ...
Joe Wilson10y ago
Thank you very much for sharing this article.

Introduction

Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 is the most exciting version of Visual Studio. You can download the RC from https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-2017-rc/

Visual Studio 2017 has a lot of cool features, tool support and the best developer experience right from the installation to coding to debugging to testing to deploying.

System Requirements

To know minimum requirements for successful installation of Visual Studio 2017 product family, please visit this URL.
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/productinfo/vs2017-system-requirements-vs

Installation

Run the downloaded .exe and you will see a very unique launch screen, as shown below.

Option Selection

Visual Studio 2017 offers a brand new way of choosing the tool sets. You can choose one of the following.

Workload; i.e., what exactly you do or want to do.
Individual components; i.e., hand pick all the components individually. I feel it can be messy, unless you want to cherry pick.
Language Packs; i.e., select language of your choice.

Workloads

Workloads is the easiest and most effective way of installing all the components and the dependencies of your chosen field of development. For example, Web, desktop, cloud, node, data science etc.

This is so much loaded that you can select up to 8 “Web & Cloud” workloads, as shown below.

Steps To install

Individual Components

This is a tricky one and can cause issues if someone really starts to pick and choose the options from here. However, this will be a perfect choice when you just want to install “.NET Core Runtime” or some other components.

Language Packs

This enables you to pick the language of your choice. Based on your operating system, it will automatically default to a language, as shown below.

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Making Selection

Once the selection is made; preferably from Workloads tab; you will see that Summary section is populated with all the components, which will be installed. If you want, you can expand each listed item under the summary and see all the components installed under each item to a very granular level.

Steps To install

Now, let’s begin the installation

I personally feel that this is one of the fastest Visual Studio setups since the first version I had my hands on back in 1996.

Setup Complete

Visual Studio 2017 RC setup requires you to restart your PC. You may not want to do it, but I recommend you “Restart” it.

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Welcome Visual Studio 2017

Notice the recently added section and see all Visual Studio 2017 components.

Check the Installed .NET Frameworks

The image given below shows that all the .NET frameworks are successfully installed, which includes .NET Framework until 4.6.x and .NET 1.0 Preview 3. You can run the commands, as shown below, to check those in any machine.

“dotnet --version” is a very handy command to be executed from the Developer Command Prompt to identify if you have .NET Core or not.

Steps To install

Visual Studio Installer

In the installed items, there is an item listed at the very end “Visual Studio Installer” this is to Modify, Repair, Uninstall etc.

Let’s Fire up Visual Studio 2017

Here comes the most awaited IDE