One of the main advantages that OpenNAS provides is the capability of automatically generating the NAS VHDL files with the NAS configuration and architecture that the user selected throughout the process and the different steps of the wizard. If you prefer an older version of the Visual Studio Community, please click here to go to 'Visual Studio Older Versions' website. Once there, click on 'Download VS Community 2017' and install it. Click here to go to the Visual Studio website.

Microsoft Visual Studio Community: Version 2015 or latest.

To contribute to the OpenNAS project development you will need to download and install the Visual Studio Community since it was the IDE that was used to develop OpenNAS.

Once downloaded, the user has to install it manually. There, select the language and then click on the 'Download' button.

Click here to go to Microsoft Download Center. The following software is needed to run OpenNAS properly: If you are not a Microsoft Windows user, a Virtual Machine could be useful to you. Since the OpenNAS software has been developed using Microsoft software tools, a Microsoft Windows OS installation is required to run the OpenNAS (version 7 or latest).

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