Chapter 1: Getting Started with Visual Studio 2022
Visual Studio (VS) is the most popular integrated development environment (IDE) for .NET developers. It's the perfect tool to design, develop, debug, and deploy all .NET applications and even other technologies.
In this chapter, you will learn about the history, historical versions, and installation process of VS, as well as the initial configurations to start working with this IDE. After learning about the VS flavors, you will be able to choose the option that best suits your needs.
By the end of this chapter, you will get a brief overview of VS's history and understand the main evolutionary changes across its different versions. You will also learn how to install and start using this amazing tool.
In this chapter, you will learn about the following main topics:
- A brief history of VS
- VS flavors
- Installing VS 2022
- VS for Mac