How To Install Visual Studio 2017(by Bianca Tuliao, August 26, 2019)

1. Search www.azure.microsoft.com/en-us/ in the address bar

2. Click the green “Start free” button

3. Click the green “Start free” button on the next page

4. Enter your official temple student email/accessnet email (tux00000@temple.edu format) and click “Next”

5. You will get redirected to Temple’s log-in page. Enter your information and click the “Sign in” button

6. Enter your first name, last name, email address, and phone number. Then click the blue “Next” button

7. Agree to the terms and click the “Sign up” button

8. Click on the blue “Go to the portal” button

9. You will be redirected to the portal where you can download Visual Studio 2017 and other Microsoft software. A welcome pop-up window will appear on the page. Exit out of it by clicking on either the blue “View my free recommendations” button or by clicking on the x button on the upper right-hand corner of the pop-up window

10. In the search bar within the portal, type “Education” and press enter or click on the “Education” button from the suggestions box

11. On the left-hand side, right under the “Education - Overview” header click on the “Software” button

12. In the search bar within the “Education - Software” panel, search “Visual Studio 2017” and press enter

13. You will see a list of suggestions of software to download based on your search. For this course, select Visual Studio Enterprise 2017. Then click on the “Download” button and “View Key” button. You will enter the key when you boot up the program and activate the license

Troubleshooting

· If you are getting an error that will not allow you to view/validate the product key such as the screenshot below:

Sign-in to the Microsoft Azure portal on a computer in one of the computer labs in the SERC (Rooms 204, 206, 357, or 359) and repeat the steps above (starting from step 10). When you click on the “View Key” button, your key for Visual Studio should appear

*Written and last updated 8/27/2019 by Bianca Tuliao