VS Installation - learnclang/1-helloworld GitHub Wiki

Installing Internet Explorer 10 (or later)

When you have installed Windows 7 and have logged in to the desktop, go here to download the latest version of Internet Explorer. Version 10 is required, but I downloaded version 11 when writing this.

Downloading Visual Studio

Download Visual Studio in .iso file format from Microsoft. I downloaded Visual Studio Community with Update 4 when writing this guide.

Mounting the .iso file

If you are running in a VirtualBox environment

When the .iso file has downloaded, go into the VirtualBox file menu and click Devices -> CD/DVD Devices -> Choose a virtual CD/DVD disk file..., navigate to the downloaded .iso file and select it.

If you are not running in a VirtualBox environment

Burn the .iso file to CD-ROM... (needs more clarification?)

Installing Visual Studio

  1. Use Windows Explorer to navigate to the Visual Studio installation CD, which by default is mounted to D:\ under the VirtualBox environment.
  2. Browse the CD and execute the vs_community executable to start the Visual Studio installation.
  3. I'm leaving all of the options at default during installation, installing the full package, totaling at around 11 Gigabytes.

Go get some exercise, because this will take quite some time to finish installing.

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