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Install

Visual Studio install

Use your DTU account to get a free version of Visual Studio Code.

• Go to https://www.inside.dtu.dk/da/medarbejder under IT and software; there is a menu item "MS Visual Studio" that refers to https://azureforeducation.microsoft.com/devtools; go to this link.
• Sign in with your DTU mail and DTU password.
• Look for education software; this should get you to a long list of software.

• Select "MS Visual Studio Code" and press the "download" button.

• You can now download the software for your platform.

Install and start the app.

Visual Studio configure

Some extensions are needed.

In extensions, install C++

PlatformIO

Install the PlatformIO extension.

Linux

The Python package python3-venv need to be installed.

sudo apt install python3-venv

Otherwise the installation stops and complains about no working Python.