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Now let's talk about installing Visual Studio. We've talked about how to actually get Visual Studio and the various versions and I want to take you real quickly here through setting this up. Now, I'm installing a trail version of Visual Studio 2008 Pro and all I've done is stuck a CD in and I'm going to let it run and notice the first thing it's going to do is load some installation components and I want to just step you through this and I'll probably pause the video a couple of times. You're not going to have to watch an entire, boring installation here if this starts to take too long but I do want to let you see a couple of things that you will have to do to make sure that you get up and running on C#. And so for now it's going to load the installation components and I want to show you a couple of warnings here. First of all, this can be somewhat of a time-consuming process. Here's a welcoming telling us what a great idea. We have read the license and accepted the license agreements. Here I'll scroll through that. OK. So you read that, you agree with all that. Notice it's going to install the .NET Framework 3.5, a bunch of other things. And we'll just click Next and it's going to talk about available disk space and how much we need and do we have enough and we're going to do custom features here and I'll show you why; because we really don't want to install all the languages. We're going to actually clear C++. Woops, I didn't want to do that. I want to do that one and I'll actually take Visual Basic off and we'll leave the rest of the stuff and notice it just cuts down the disk requirements and it's going to make it install a lot faster. So what it's going to do now is simply go through and install everything that we need. Now, from time to time, for example, if you don't have the latest service pack that's required and so forth, it might notify you that you need to load a service pack or whatever; no problem. Just go to Microsoft's site and get it, install it and you should be goo to go. Now, one of the things I always do in these courses, and you will notice down here kind of we'll talk about this while we're waiting for the rest of this to happen, I'm running a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Version Evaluation Copy. So I just downloaded this off Microsoft's website, loaded it up and of course I'm using a virtual environment but I want to make sure that I build this in a way that you can get your hands on this stuff for free and follow along with me. So you're going to notice in this course and you may actually see an activation window pop up down here from time to time but we're going to use an Evaluation Copy of Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 loaded and then we're actually also going to use a trial version of Visual Studio 2008 to look at C#. So you can do all this totally free and this stuff will last for I think 30 days at a time. If you're an MSDN subscriber or a TechNet subscriber, you can get a product key that'll make it last maybe a year so a lot of easy ways to learn this. Now, I mentioned this in the various versions video about Visual Studio in a different place in the course that you can actually get Visual Studio 2008 Express and you can get it for the C# programming language and you can do that totally free and it doesn't expire but you do lose some of the functionality for Visual Studio 2008 and I want you to see all those and get used to them and so forth. Now, there is a program out there on Microsoft's website and I think it's called Dreamscapes or something like that. Just go out and do a Google search for free versions of Visual Studio. Microsoft for Students, now if you're a student with a valid student ID card at a university and I know in the United States, probably in other countries as well, but you can go in and enroll in that program and you can get Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server, all kinds of things absolute, totally free. So go look at that and get your hands on that if you qualify for it. So notice that we're just going through the process of installing the .NET Framework 3.5 and we're going to do all of this stuff as we come down through here and I'm just going to pause the video and as a matter of fact, you've really seen what I wanted you to see which was just choose C#, leave Visual Basic and C Plus Plus off and then when we get through, we'll be ready to go and we will be ready to program and start to take our first looks at C#; so I'll pause the video and I'll come back in a few minutes and give you an idea of how long it took and what we can expect and how to move forward from there. OK, so you'll notice that we're continuing right along here. We're at about the eight-minute mark on installing this and you notice that we're on the fourth step here. We're actually installing Visual Studio 2008. This is probably going to take you about 15, 20 minutes on most machines so we'll just kind of watch this go through and I'll pause the video, come back and join you within just a few seconds. OK, as you can see, we've kind of progressed really quickly now. We're at about the 15-minute mark and once we went past the Visual Studio 2008 portion it really started to move quickly. Now, I will scroll down a little and you can see we've still got a ways to go. But these tend to go pretty quickly. Notice also this is going to install the SQL Server 2005 Express Edition for you so that you can connect to databases and play with those as well with some of the data Framework classes. So anyway, we'll continue to let this run. Again, we're at about 15 minutes, 30 seconds now and we'll just sit back and watch and I'll pause the video and rejoin you in just a few minutes. OK, now at about the 23-minute mark. We've completed Visual Studio, the installation portion but notice they're giving us security recommendations and now we can install our MSDN Library if we have that. We're not going to do that in our course so we simply click Finish and we're done at this point. We will exit out and if we click Start and go to All Programs, you will now see that we have Visual Studio installed and we can click on this and open it and it's going to start to ask us some questions and at this point we'll go to the next video and start talking about some Visual Studio tours and just kind of get acclimated to Visual Studio. See you there.