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Initial Setup

There are several installation steps to go through before we can get started programming. We need to get Windows

IoT Core installed on the Raspberry Pi, we need to install Visual Studio on a Windows 10 PC, and we need to install

some support tools on the PC in addition to Visual Studio.

Install Visual Studio on your Windows 10 computer

Make sure you have the latest Windows 10 release installed. Yes, a Windows 10 computer is required!

For program development, you’ll need Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 or later. The Community Edition is free for

personal, non-commercial use, and fully supports Windows IoT Core development. This page (https://adafru.it/pcl) goes

over the steps to install Visual Studio on your computer, or you can follow along here:

First install Visual Studio Community edition. You can get it from here (https://adafru.it/pcm). If you already have

VS 2015 installed, make sure you install the latest update. At the time of this writing, Update 2 is the most recent,

and is available for download here (https://adafru.it/pcn).

Now, open Visual Studio and select Help>About Microsoft Visual Studio, make sure the version of Visual Studio

is at least 14.0.24720.00 Update 1, and the version of Visual Studio Tools for Universal Windows Aps is at least

14.0.24720.00

If that’s OK, you need to install the Windows IoT Core Project Templates. Go into Tools > Extensions and Updates.

On the left-hand side of the popup, select “Online”. In the search box in the upper right, type “Windows IoT Core

Project Templates”.

In the center window, select the Windows IoT Core Project Templates item from the list, and click the Download

button.