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Instructions for Downloading and Installing Visual C# 2008 Express Edition

By David Bolton, About.com

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Selecting the Install Folder

Select the Install folder
You have to install the software somewhere and the default selection "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\" is as good a place as any. Generally Microsoft have got this sort of thing figured out. You get pretty good at stuff with 30 years practice!

You can also review the full list of things that will be installed and see vast acreage of your precious disk space become part of the Microsoft reservation. Mine totalled 827 Mb but only 57MB download as I had the MSDN stuff already.

Also downloaded on mine was

  • Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. You need this to run C# 2008.
  • SDKs for Express Tools for .NET and Win 32.
  • Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition
  • Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5

On the next page - The download begins

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