Hello Ace
This is RetroTK2 and today, you'll be installing Visual Studio Community 2017
You also learn how to emulate the development environment that we'd setup in VS 2015
I won't be discussing the new features of Visual Studio 2017 with you today Ace...
Mainly because a lot of the new features seem to be more focused on the web side of development
There is also a ton of pretty cool stuff to do with C# 7, but alas, with Unity we are still stuck with .Net 3.5 and C# 4
Hmmm... well at least with the current stable release of Unity anyway
I'm also not going to discuss the differences between Community and Professional, but please feel free to check out my previous video on this topic...
The card should be on your screen now...
I also won't be discussing the extensions that I'm installing here, since I've already done this in the first series
The card should be on your screen once again...
So let's get started...
Open up your web browser of choice, type "Visual Studio Community 2017 Download" into some search engine and with any luck it should be the first link
Hover over the "Download Visual Studio" button and click the "Community 2017" element
Once the download has finished, click on the ".exe" and click "Yes" on the UAC dialog if it pops up
Click "Continue"
Right Ace, you'll probably notice a big difference between the 2015 and the 2017 installs
It seems that the Visual Studio team have made the whole IDE a lot more modular...
Which I'd say is a pretty good thing since you can just select the components you'll need for whatever type of development you're doing
In our case, we'll need to select the "Game development with Unity" ticket
I also selected the "Visual Studio extension development" ticket as well, but it's not needed for Unity
One ticket you may want is "Game development with C++"
This is needed if you're planning on using Visual Studio with Unreal or even you're just wanting to make C++ plugins for Unity
But I'll leave all those decisions to you Ace
You'll also what to have a look at the Individual components too
These seem to be a lot more focused than the previous tickets and as far as I know, the default selections are grand for Unity
But your mileage may vary here Ace
Once you're happy click "Install"
The install should be pretty quick this time round and for me it took about 6 minutes
No 6 hour installs like last time, ey Ace?
Once the install is complete, click the "Launch" button to open Visual Studio
You'll be greeted with a Sign in dialog box and this is pretty important, since you'll need to create an account in order to continue using Visual Studio after 30 days
I made a whole video on this for the 2015 version, but the process should be very similar
The card for it is on your screen now...
For me, I've already got a Microsoft account, so I'm happy to click "Sign in" and get this show on the road
Type your email into the text field...
And I'd say type your password in too, but for whatever reason, Visual Studio automatically redirects you to another dialog...
This process is not a quick one either Ace, since it takes about a minute for it to get to the next screen
I don't know if this depends on your internet connection or computer's performance so your times may possibly vary here
After all that, we come to a password entry screen
I really don't understand why Microsoft did this, but I'm sure they have a good reason for it
Anyway, type your password into the text field and click "Sign in"
After another bit of a waiting, a dialog saying "We're getting things ready" should appear
This one should only take about 30 seconds to complete
Once it's completed, Visual Studio should open and greet you with the horrible blue theme
Apologies if you like the blue theme Ace, I personally can't stand the site of it
This to me is the most annoying thing about upgrading to a new Visual Studio version
The fact that none of your extensions work anymore and that you have to reinstall everything again
Let's get through this together Ace
To get ReSharper working with this newest Visual Studio, you'll have to download it from the "JetBrains" website
I must say I'm gutted here Ace, since I've been using the older ReSharper 10 with VS 2015, which is of course unsupported with VS 2017
This means I'm going to have to update my subscription after the 30 day trial
Oh well...
Once you've download "ReSharper", close Visual Studio and click the installer's ".exe" to start the process
When the dialog pops up, make sure the "Install" option is blue beside "ReSharper" and you'll want to make sure that the 2017 button is selected
Here I'm deselecting 2015 since I want to continue using ReSharper 10 on that version...
I know Ace, let it die, but I just can't let it go
Not just yet
Click the checkbox beside "I Have read and accept the license agreement" and click "Install"
All standard stuff Ace, very basic
Click "Finish" once it's all done and you're ready to use ReSharper once again
Let's install the updated "Color Picker" extension and the "Inline Color Picker" from Microsoft
Click "Tools > Extensions and Updates..."
Click the "Online" dropdown button, type "inline color picker" into the search field and click the "Download" button beside the "Inline Color Picker"
After that, click on the "Color Picker" element and click the "Download" button beside it
This is the newly updated version of the extension I used in the "inline color picker" video and I was even lucky enough to get a comment from the creator "Shemeer NS"
Apologies if I am mispronouncing your name
This latest version has "many updates" according to him, so I look forward to seeing what new tricks it has to offer
While we're here Ace, let's download the "Format on Save" extension too
Type "formatonsave" (all one word) into the search field
Here you'll see that this extension is only for "ReSharper" users, and I must say Ace, it is rather slow when it's reformatting
Still it's best one we have for now
If your feeling adventurous or just don't have ReSharper, you can check out the standard "Format on Save" extensions
OK, with all that done, click the "Close" button and close Visual Studio
This is another big difference with 2017 Ace...
Once you close Visual Studio after downloading the extensions, it will explicitly ask you if you want to modify your Visual Studio Install
I of course want to, so I'm going to click "Modify"
You may get a dialog saying that "the following processes need to finish before continuing"
And, I'm not going to lie to you Ace, that "PerfWatson2.exe" takes a long time to finish
So feel free click "End Tasks" to force them end
Click "Close" and Reopen Visual Studio
You can also reinstall "ReSpeller" if you like...
Click "ReSharper > Extension Manager..."
"ReSpeller Free" might be the first extension you see, but in case it isn't, type "respeller" into the search field
Click the "Install" button beside it and then click the "Install" button at the bottom of the window
ReSharper will now configure Visual Studio and once it's all done, you'll have to click the "Restart Visual Studio to load them" text near the top of the window
When the dialog pops up, click "Yes" to restart Visual Studio and you should be good to go Ace
Another thing that might really disappointed you is that the "Color Theme" extension hasn't been ported over to 2017 yet
Though, all is not lost Ace...
If you look in the description, you'll find a link to a hacked version of the 2015 extension that works in Visual Studio 2017
Please be warned here Ace, you'll be using this software at your own risk, so proceed with caution
Once you get to the download page, Click the "Download" dropdown and then click "Direct download"
Once it finishes Downloading, click the ".exe" and when the dialog pops up, click "Install"
Immediately you'll be greeted with a dialog saying "The following extensions are not compatible with Visual Studio 2017."
"Installation may cause Visual Studio to be unstable"
Click "Yes" if you dare Ace
Once again, click the "End Tasks" button
And once it's all done, click the "Close" button
I have to say that even though this extension is a hack, it's been working really well for me
I was even able to exported my theme from Visual Studio 2015 and import it straight into 2017
Having said that, it did come up with a dialog saying "Unexpected error while importing theme:", and I did have to restart Visual Studio before the theme switched
But hey, the theme works and now I have all my wonderfully colored code
One other thing Ace...
Anytime I install a new extension for Visual Studio, my theme will have reverted to the grotesque blue theme, and my imported theme will have disappeared
This means that I have to reimport my theme and reselect it each time I install a new extension...
But it's a small price to pay to have easy to read code
This has been a been a survival guide for upgrading to Visual Studio 2017
And that's it...
Rate, Comment and Subscribe Ace, I hope your upgrade has gone smoothly
You can email me at RetroTK2@gmail.com to tell me what you think of Visual Studio 2017
Thank you for watching Ace, and I'll see you in the next video
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