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Step 1 - Guide Pre-requisite:

At the time of writing this documentation, the following is a pre-requisite to the rest of the guide.

  1. Make sure you have permission to install the software you are about to install. Check with your team first.

  2. Make sure you have local administrator rights on your issued device.

  3. Make sure you are added to the proper Active Directory Group. If you run into permission issues during the rest of the guide, you are probably not “included“ to something. Just check with your team.

  4. Make sure you are able to connect to the Government of Canada Secure Remote Access (GCSRA) service. aka Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client

Step 2 - Visual Studio:

First, inquire with the team you are working with about the development software they are using. At the time of writing this document, the IDE used by Team Kraken was Visual Studio. You are also entitled to a Professional license of Visual Studio, so prior to implementing this step make sure you check with your team about how to submit a request to get your account subscribed to the Visual Studio Subscriptions group.

Step 2.1 - Download

Head over to your Visual Studio Professional Subscription, and under:

  1. Benefits

  2. Subscription = Visual Studio Professional

  3. Benefits included in my subscription = All

you will see the Visual Studio Professional download button. Click it.

You will be directed to the “Your Downloads“ page, where you will see the product you selected for download. In our case it is Visual Studio Professional 2019 (version 16.9) [Version and Year are based on the time of writing this document].

You are fine to leave the defaults, but if you want to choose a different language, i.e. French, change that from the dropdown menu.

After you click the download button, you will be directed to the thank you page from Microsoft and your download will be begin shortly afterwards.

Step 2.2 - Installation

Launch the Visual Studio Installer and accept the UAC prompt.

Click on the continue button to allow the Visual Studio Installer to proceed with downloading the necessary files.

After the installer completed downloading and installing the necessary files, select the the workload items required for development:

  • ASP.NET and web development

  • Azure development

  • .NET Core cross-platform development (Scroll to the bottom of the list)

The Visual Studio Installer will commence the download of the workload items and install them. Wait for it to complete, then proceed to the configuration section.

Step 2.3 - Configuration

Step 3 - Install Docker (Windows):

Step 3.1 - Download

Step 3.2 - Installation

Step 3.3 - Configuration

Step 4 - pgAdmin - PostgresSQL Tools:

Step 4.1 - Download:

Navigate to the pgAdmin website download page and download the Windows pgAdmin 4 tool.

This will take you to the download section for the specific operating system you selected. In our case Windows.

Click on the latest release, which at the time of writing this document is v5.0:

This will take you to the “real“ download page:

Step 4.2 - Installation:

Step 4.3 - Configuration:

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