hi my name is Dante Gagne and I'm here to kick off the Kinect learn series for universal Windows platform application development over the course of this series I'm going to help you get Visual Studio onto your machine and get you started on creating your first Universal Windows applications in this first video we're going to focus on just installing Visual Studio and taking a brief look at both Visual Studio and blend the two tools that will be invaluable for your universal windows application development now on this machine I'm going to be installing the Enterprise Edition now if you want to the Community Edition also works and most of the things that we show over this series will work in either addition but for now I'm using the Enterprise Edition so let's go ahead and start with that so I'm already up here at Visual Studio comm and you can see already over here on the left is the button to install community 2015 this is the free edition that's available for everybody and most of the things that I show you over this series are available in either community or the enterprise but I'm going to scroll down just a little bit further and download the Enterprise Edition once it comes up the universal Windows platform tools are not installed by default so always make sure when you're installing to switch over to a custom install come over to the next page and check the universal Windows app development tools once these are on the machine you'll be able to start working with the universal Windows platform once you're here just click install and get ready to go now I'm not going to install here cuz it does take a few minutes but we're going to switch over to my other machine where I already have everything installed I've already brought up Visual Studio and again this is the Enterprise Edition the first thing I want to help you do is make sure that you've got everything installed correctly now very easily all I need to do is go to new project and once a new project dialog comes up the first thing I want to make sure I have is the blank app Universal Windows this is a universal Windows platform application if this is not there you're going to want to go into your control panel and modify the Visual Studio installation and make sure you add the Universal Windows platform tools whenever you update Visual Studio it will update any of the modules that you have for it at the same time so if you had the Universal windows tools installed when you install Visual Studio if you add the update on top of it it will also bring the universal Windows platform tools to the latest version as long as you've got Universal windows here in your new project dialog you've got all the tools installed and you're ready to go now when you install Visual Studio you're going to actually get two tools you're going to get Visual Studio 2015 and you're going to get blend for Visual Studio 2015 and a common question gets asked which one do I use well in a lot of ways it's a matter of preference blend really shines when you're working with the design surface so if you want to drag out your controls try to get all your controls aligned nicely and things like that that's where blend strengths really shines through if you're the kind of developer who prefers to work directly in the zamel typing each character using intellisense and taking advantage of the coding abilities of Visual Studio that's where visual studios a little bit stronger but honestly either one works the desire is available in Visual Studio and the coding tools are available in blend over time you'll play with the two tools I'm sure you'll get more comfortable in whichever one you like another question that frequently gets asked is what happens if my development house is one that can't move up to Windows 10 now naturally development on Windows 10 is going to be the best option but you can still do Universal Windows application development on Windows 8 or 81 you can actually even go as far back as Windows 7 if you're on Windows 8 or 81 you're only going to be able to deploy your application to emulators or local devices which means you're not going to be able to use the design surface and you're not going to be able to sideload the application onto your development box you can still develop that way but it's not the optimal situation on Windows 7 the emulators are not available either so on that device you're going to need a separate device say some other Universal Windows application device to deploy to as you're going along so now we've got Visual Studio on your machine and you know you've got the universal Windows tools in the next video we're going to be going into actually creating a video and taking a look at Visual Studio and blend so you understand the environment that we're going to be working with we'll see you next time
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