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Installing Visual Studio and Xamarin on Windows

To install Visual Studio and Xamarin on a Windows machine, follow these steps:

Go to https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/.
When you open the preceding URL in a browser, you'll get a screen like this:

You can see there are several editions of Visual Studio available for developers.
You can choose the version best suited to your requirements. If you just want to learn Xamarin using Visual Studio, or if you are an individual developer looking for a free version, then Visual Studio Community Edition is best suited for you.
Click on Free download provided under Visual Studio Community 2017

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