Installing Visual Studio

To install Visual Studio, we first need to download it from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com. 

When we start the Visual Studio installer via the file we downloaded, it will start to check what we already have installed on our machine. When the check has finished, we will be able to select which platforms and tools we would like to install. Note that Xamarin Inspector requires a Visual Studio Enterprise license.        

Once we have selected the platforms that we want to install, Visual Studio will download and install everything that we need to get started with app development using Xamarin, as shown in the following screenshot: