8 GB of RAM minimum (16 GB highly recommended for large C++ codebases).

Once authenticated, locate the section. Choose the edition that best fits your licensing and development needs:

Alex navigated there and looked for "Visual Studio 2019." But wait—Microsoft now pushes Visual Studio 2022. 2019 is older. But the project required 2019 for compatibility with an old library.

Then the Visual Studio Installer launched—a separate program that manages all Visual Studio versions. It downloaded more components, then showed a screen: .