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Now I want to give you just a little overview of Visual Studio. Now Visual Studio is the environment that we're going to use to build our web pages in ASP.NET. Now, there's a couple of things you need to know about Visual Studio. There's a full version with multiple editions and these cost you money. Now if you have access to a Full Version of Visual Studio I would suggest you go ahead and use that. You may have gotten this from an employer, you may have bought it, you may have it as part of an MSDN, or Technet package, but if you have it and you can even go to Microsoft's site, download a trial edition of Visual Studio 2008, now I think it'll run 90 days and then go away, but I just kind of want to help you understand some of the potential confusion you're going to see out there when you go look up Visual Studio for building your ASP.ENT web pages. First of all, the First Edition that's out there is the one called Visual Studio Team System. This is for really large organizations where there's a lot of different developers working on a project at the same time. It allows them to check things in and out, maintain versions and all that sort of thing. Visual Studio Professional is kind of the standard out there for everybody else. It is one of the full featured versions. It has all kinds of stuff and the big tip here is that you can create SQL Server Databases from inside Visual Studio using the Server Explorer. If you need to do it, Visual Studio Professional is going to let you do it in a very cool way. Now this one's going to cost the most money - over a thousand dollars in most places. Totally depends on your relationship with Microsoft, whether you're a teacher, in an academic location, that sort of thing, humidity and all that. Visual Studio Standard is kind of the step down from that. It's a little cheaper, has a few fewer features than Professional and I'm not going to try to list all those here. Just want you to be aware of what's going on. So, bottom line, if you have one of these full versions use it. You can do what you can do, what I'm going to do in this video, obviously in those full versions. Now, here's the good news. There are versions called Express and these are free and I don't mean a trick or anything, I mean totally free. You can just go to Microsoft's Web site and you can download these Express Editions. Now, what you're going to see is that when you buy the Visual Studio Full Edition everything happens in that one IDE. In the Express Editions you download them based on the language or technology you're going to use and I'll show you an example of that in just a few minutes. Now these have limited functionality, but don't let that scare you because we're going to do this course on the Visual Studio Express Edition, which is called the Visual Web Developer and I'll show you how to get that a little bit later on. Now this is great for basic applications for most small applications that a lot of people build. If you're in an environment where your company is buying you the full version of Visual Studio then go for it. If you're a professional developer working in a lot of different places then you'll probably want to get outside the free editions, but for now you can get those. So now let me do a little shameless marketing for Microsoft here. You can get these Express Editions for SQL Server and for other technologies. Now notice www.microsoft.com/exPress, let's go to that out on the Internet and take a look. And here we are, notice I've gone to microsoft.com/express and notice that I can Explore by Interest, by Product, I can look at Samples and Resources and can do Download and Support and if I scroll down I can Explore by Interest or by Product. Well, if I go by Product you will notice there's Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition that is for building Visual Basic-based applications; Visual C#; Visual C++ and the Visual Web Developer and I notice this does not say ASP.NET. You'll just have to know that that's what that is. I know it's confusing, especially for a newcomer, welcome to Redmond. All I have to do is, is I can click on this link and then I can download this and that is exactly what you would want to do. Now also in this course you need to go get SQL Server 2008 Express and I will explain that when we get to the Getting Set Up videos, but I wanted you to see this. You want to go out and grab these. Notice you can get the Professional Full Version of Visual Studio for a 90-day, three-month trial and you may want to do that if you would like. A lot of options here. And what Microsoft's trying to do is make these products available to you free so that you can get your hands on them, learn them, gain experience, build small apps and so forth. A lot of their competition was getting their development tools away for free and so Microsoft has jumped into that game and it's good for us. That's how you can get your hands on this stuff. That is kind of some little overview of Visual Studio. For the most part you'll want to grab the Express Edition for this class, go ahead and grab Express and SQL Server 2008 Express and when we get to the Getting Set Up we'll go from there, but I wanted to make you aware of these Express Editions and the various editions of Visual Studio.