From the course: Visual Studio 2019 Essential Training

Initial configuration of Visual Studio - Visual Studio Tutorial

From the course: Visual Studio 2019 Essential Training

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Initial configuration of Visual Studio

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- [Instructor] The first time you run Visual Studio, you'll be asked to configure it with some initial developer settings. For this demonstration, I'll open the Start menu and then open Visual Studio 2019. On this screen is where I sign in to Visual Studio with my Microsoft account. This enables what is called Connected services. For this demonstration, I will choose Not now, Maybe later. If you want to learn more about this, I talk about it elsewhere in the course. On this screen, I choose what type of development settings to configure Visual Studio with. I usually choose General, but there are other choices in the dropdown. Basically, there is one for each of the popular languages that are part of Visual Studio. If you know you are a C# builder, pick this one, or a JavaScript developer, choose this item. But for me, I'll choose General. Now my next choice is whether to pick one of the existing color schemes. This is the default Blue. There's also an additional three items, the Dark, Light, and Blue Extra Contrast. For this demonstration, and for the rest of this course, I'll choose Blue. Then choose to Start Visual Studio. Here I'll continue without code. I want to talk about what happens if you change your mind and you want to switch to a different profile. For that you'll go to Tools, Import and Export Settings. Choose to Reset all settings, and then click on Next. Don't save your existing settings, Click on Next. And of course in the real world, you'd probably want to save your settings. And then here is that same list that we saw on the opening dialog. So if I need to switch from General, which is the one I usually pick, to C#, I would come in here and then click on Finish, and they will update Visual Studio for my new preferences. Cancel out of this. This concludes the setup and configuration steps for this course. You are now ready to start exploring the course content and learn the essentials of Visual Studio.

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