Installing Visual Studio 2022

Installing Visual Studio 2022

Installing Visual Studio 2022


Visual Studio 2022 is a powerful Integrated Development Environment (IDE) by Microsoft, used to build apps for web, desktop, mobile, cloud, and more. This guide walks you through the installation process step by step.

Download Visual Studio 2022
Go to the official Microsoft Visual Studio downloads page: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

Choose the Free Trial for Professional

Once it finishes downloading open the installer

Click Continue


In the workloads tab select the following:
  1. .NET desktop development
  2. ASP.NET and web development
  3. Azure development
Do NOT click Install yet

Navigate to the Individual components tab and check the following:
  1. .NET Framework 4.6.1 targeting packaging
  2. .NET Framework 4.6.2 targeting packaging
  3. .NET Framework 4.7.1 targeting packaging
  4. NET Framework 4.8.1 targeting packaging

Click on Skip and add accounts later.

Start Visual Studio

Customizing Visual Studio

Set a path for default location
Open File Explorer and navigate to This PC
Go to your C:\
Create a folder and call it "source"

Open the folder "source" you just created
create a subfolder and call it "repos"
Right-click "repos" and Copy as path


Go to Visual Studio
Click Continue without code

Navigate to the Tools tab
Select Options
Search for "Git"
Select Git Global Settings
For User name, type "migrations"
For email, type "migrations"
Paste the path to the "repos" folder you created before.
Click OK
Important: Navigate to the Tools tab again and select Options to confirm the settings did save and look like the above image.

Installing Add Ins


Navigate to Extensions
Select manage extensions
Search for CodeMaid
Select CodeMaid VS 2022
Click Install

A message will show up saying the changes are scheduled


Close Visual Studio

Click Modify

Click Close





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