Kickstart with Visual Studio 2019

by Santhakumar Munuswamy

  Posted on  05 April 2019

  Visual Studio


 

In this article, we will discuss in details about Visual Studio 2019 and now available for downloading to all three versions such as community, professional and enterprise edition. Microsoft has announced Visual Studio 2019 for Visual studio launch event on April 2nd, 2019. We can easily upgrade the Visual Studio 2019 RC to the Visual Studio 2019 general available release. We can also be starting to use production code for Visual Studio 2019 from now onwards.

In this article, we will see the following 

  • How to upgrade Visual Studio 2019 RC to the Visual Studio 2019
  • How to create a new project


Prerequisite

Visual Studio 2019 will quietly work on the operating system and hardware given below

Operating Systems

  • Windows 10 version 1703 or higher
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows 8.1 (with Update 2919355)
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 (with Update 2919355)
  • Windows 7 SP1 (with Update 3033929) 

Hardware

  • 1.8 GHz or faster processor
  • Minimum 2 GB RAM, 8 GB RAM (Recommended)


How to upgrade Visual Studio 2019 RC to the Visual Studio 2019

I am really excited to download the new Visual Studio 2019 Community edition. You can download the Visual Studio 2019 at the following URL

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

Now, you can copy and paste the URL into your browser as below screenshot. In my case of choice downloading for community edition. Then click the free download button.


Now the page navigating to the downloading page and you will get the “Thank you for downloading Visual Studio” message from the page