NEO Blockchain Quick Start Guide for .NET Developers - Activity 1

Author: Michael Herman
Original link: https://github.com/mwherman2000/neo-dotnetquickstart/blob/master/EN-us/01-installvisualstudio.md
Translation: NEL New Economy Lab

Download and install Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition Integrated Development Environment ( IDE )

purpose

If you don't have an existing version of Visual Studio 2017 installed , this activity is designed to download, install and execute a basic configuration of Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition.

Goals, Non-Goals and Assumptions

Make sure you have a properly configured version of Visual Studio 2017 installed

Additional Visual Studio customization steps are covered in subsequent activities.

Visual Studio 2017 will install side-by-side with previous versions of Visual Studio without affecting them (except for reducing free disk space). This includes Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio Code , among others.

in principle

· Provide reliable documentation: timely, accurate, intuitive and complete

· Save as much time as possible

· Use open source software whenever possible

driving factor

The NEO .NET developer community needs to have concise and understandable documentation so that people can accelerate the development of NEO smart contracts in the shortest possible time

Download and install Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition Integrated Development Environment ( IDE )

There are two scenarios

Scenario 1 - You do n't have any version of Visual Studio 2017 installed

Scenario 2 - You have an existing version of Visual Studio 2017 installed

If Scenario 1 applies to you, you need to perform the tasks in Scenario 1 and skip Scenario 2.

If only Scenario 2 applies to you, you can skip the tasks in Scenario 1 and only perform the tasks in Scenario 2 .

Also, having Visual Studio Code installed on your computer is very useful. The installation and configuration of Visual Studio Code is documented as Scenario 3 and is optional, but recommended.

Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. Visual Studio Code is free and available for your favorite platforms - Linux , Mac OSX and Windows . [ VSCODE]

Scenario 1 - You don't have any version of Visual Studio 2017 installed

1. Download the Visual Studio 2017 installer from one of the following two URLs

Generic Visual Studio download site (all editions) ( https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/ )

Figure 1.1. Generic Visual Studio download site (all versions)

(https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/community/).

Figure 1.2. Specific download sites for Visual Studio Community Edition

2. In your Downloads folder, double-click the vs_community.ex e executable installer.

3. Accept the Visual Studio EULA .

Figure 1.3. Accepting the Visual Studio EULA .

4. Select the workloads (options) you want to use for the traditional front-end, middle-tier, and back-end components of the solution.

Figure 1.4. Visual Studio Installer

5. Important: Choose the .NET Core Cross-Platform Development Toolset to compile all NEO 's developer tools

Figure 1.5. Visual Studio Installer: Toolset

6. Click Modify to complete the installation

7. Installation is complete

Figure 1.6. Installation complete

8. Test the installation. From the Windows start menu, enter "visual studio" . Select Visual Studio Application from the list . After a short delay, Visual Studio should start and look something like the one below.