To fully benefit from this chapter, you will need a Windows 7 or better desktop machine. Windows 10 is recommended but not essential.
To create universal applications for Windows, IoT will need to install Visual Studio 2015. You can install a completely free version called Community edition. Only 2015 supports universal apps. You can also create other types of projects in the Community edition completely free.
To get started with developing universal apps, you must have Visual Studio 2015. You can download the Community edition for free, but you need to create a live account and log into the account in the Visual Studio community to keep your free subscription active.
It is recommended to use Windows 10 desktop to download and burn the IoT image to an SD card. To get your image, you need to open https://dev.windows.com/en-us/iot and click on Get started now. You can then click on the Rasperry Pi 2 and follow the steps there.
The SD card image is distributed in an...