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Locating and downloading the Visual Studio Community edition

In this chapter, we're going to take a look at how to get Visual Studio 2017. You can either go directly to www.visualstudio.com/downloads or just do a search for Visual Studio 2017 download. This should bring you to a page similar to this one:

Figure 2.1:

Keep in mind that these pages are updated regularly. In the preceding screenshot, you will see that there are several versions. The one that interests us, of course, is Visual Studio Community 2017, the free version.

Click on Free download. This should automatically download a small installer. Depending on how your system is set ...

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