#INSTALL VISUAL STUDIO 2012 INSTALL#
There are a lot of new features under the covers and you may need to reboot, as I did, before you can complete the install.įigure: Successful installation of Visual Studio 2013 UltimateĪnd that’s it… the install end to end including the reboot took less than 10 minutes and I had no errors on a box that has been around the block with preview versions of all sorts of things.įigure: New Launch has optional Microsoft IDĪs a sign of the times you can optionally log into Visual Studio 2013 with your Microsoft ID.
#INSTALL VISUAL STUDIO 2012 ISO#
I have everything downloaded in an ISO so do need to reach out to the internet for anything large.įigure: Reboot during install of Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate The install itself will take no linger than 5-10 minutes (I am running on SSD’s) unless you have to “Acquire” the contents. Its up to you, but removing features does not free up that much disks space as it is the core of Visual Studio that is the largest component by far.įigure: Installing Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate Too many times I have been hit by missing features whenever I don’t. It is however no big deal and I am happy to give up the space for Visual Studio.įigure: Choose what to install with Visual Studio 2013Īs a rule I always install everything, which is the default. I am not sure what they are for Premium or Professional but this is fairly hefty. One thing I did note is that the installation requirements have jumped from 7.5GB to over 11GB for Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate. This has been the case for every major Visual Studio release and I know folks that have Visual Studio 2005 as well.įigure: Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate install is huge In this case both Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013 will live side by side on the same system. Get Visual Studio 2013 & Team Foundation Server 2013 while its hot!.I will be back up and running with Visual Studio in my VM within 15 minutes of starting the process. So for example when Windows8.1 becomes available I will not have to think twice about upgrading and just do it. The main reason for this is the ability to reinstall my host OS and get up and running very quickly. As most of you know I always run developer tools in a VM. Installing and configuring Visual Studio has always been a cinch and Visual Studio 2013 is no exception. I will be installing Visual Studio 2013 on Server 2012 side-by-side with Visual Studio 2012 on my development rig.