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Installing Visual Studio for Mac

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Installing Visual Studio for Mac

- [Instructor] Installation of Visual Studio for Mac is fairly straight forward with a few caveats. First of all you must have Xcode installed before you can install Visual Studio. If you don't have Xcode installed, you can find it in the App Store free of charge. Be forewarned though, Xcode is almost six gigabytes in size so installing takes a while. You might want to pack a lunch. To fully install Xcode, you need to launch it. Then agree to the end user license at which point Xcode will install all the supplementary tools that you generally need for any kind of software development on the Mac. Once Xcode is happy, you can download an installer from Microsoft's website at visualstudio.microsoft.com. This site detects which operating system you're using and displays the download options accordingly. Download the edition you're interested in. I'm going to install the community edition. While we're waiting for it to download, let's talk about the system requirements. Visual Studio…

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