1.     Visual Studio - What is it?  Visual Studio is software package with an IDE(Integrated Development Environment) that is used to edit, debug, and build code. You can then publish this app using this tool.

a.     Major Apps Supported for our purposes: we will create one of each of these in a later lab.

                                         i.          Cross-Platform Xamarin Applications: we have already done some of this.

                                        ii.         Console Applications - where the application run in black screen and contains no User Interface(UI).

                                      iii.          Platform Specific

1.     iOS, Android

                                      iv.          Class Libraries

1.     Code that we want to share with many of our projects. An example of this is the Xamarin XAML projects that we have in our Cross Platform applications. This Xamarin XAML project is shared between the iOS and Android Projects

b.     Languages supported by Visual Studio : Visual Studio Languages

                                         i.          VB.NET

                                        ii.         C#

                                      iii.          F#

2.     Microsoft with Visual Studio is in an Update release mode the is very Agile.  This is when they are usually developing in a cycle that updates to the software for Visual Studio is frequent and you should check these updates and install these updates regularly.

3.     So with Microsoft releasing updates to this environment so often, how do we keep this tool updated?

4.     Start Visual Studio by doing the following:

a.     Click on the Windows Start Button

b.     Locate Visual Studio in the list of programs.

c.      When found, you want to start Visual Studio in Administrator Mode. Right click on Visual Studio,  got to More and click on [Run as administrator]

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4.  You will be prompted with the following

a.     User Account Control Do you want to allow this app to me changes to your device? Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Verified publisher: Microsoft Corporation File origin: Hard drive on this computer

b.     Choose Yes

5.  Visual Studio will Start.  Sometimes, it may take a few minutes for any updates for the environment be available for your installation. However, when they do become available you will see an icon aleart flag in the  top right hand of the Visual Studio Environment. Visual Studio Release Notification

a.     Update Visual Studio 2017 by using the Notification hub

b.     For our purpose you should have available to you an update 15.8.6 or higher

                                                      i.          Click on this update

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                                                    iii.          Select "Visual Studio 2017 update version XXXX is available" to start the process of the update.

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1.     The installation process will beginVisual Studio Please wait a few minutes while Visual Studio updates. Visui automatically restart when installation is complete.

                                                    iv.         The installation process will continue to completion.

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                                                    vi.          There are times more than one update is available. I suggest you accept these updates. You will prompted to install these updates through a wizard driven environment, with detail instructions.

                                                   vii.         Once the installation is completed, you may be prompted with the following window.

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