How to Download and Instal Visual Csharp 2008 Express

1. Go to the Microsoft site (www.microsoft.com/express) and press downloads from the Main Bar.
2. Click on Visual Studio 2008 Express.

  Installing C# Express

 After the download completes, click the executable file that was supplied (the file was named
  vcssetup.exe  when I installed it, but it could change). You should see a screen similar to that shown in
Figure  1 - 2 , the C# Express Edition installation screen.

 Figure 1 - 2  
  Selecting the Installation Options
 Click the Next button to proceed to the next phase of the installation.
In short order you will see a screen
similar to the one in Figure  1 - 3 , showing Visual C# Expression Edition installation options.

This screen
presents a number of installation options from which to pick. Unless you have some disk space
limitations, I suggest that you install all the components in the list. Note that the file sizes mentioned are
compressed file sizes. When those files are expanded, their disk space footprint is substantially larger.
(Figure  1 - 3  suggests that a little over 76MB is the download file size. However, just before you press the
Install button you can see the actual download file size compared to the expanded file size. When I
installed C# Express, I was informed that the download file size was 135MB and the expanded disk
storage requirement was 1.2GB.)    Getting Started
 Microsoft SQL Server and its associated tools are also useful, especially if you plan to do any web
development in the future. Unless you have some severe disk space constraints, you should install all the
components. You can always uninstall components later if you need to.
 Once you ’ ve decided on which components you wish to install, click the Next button and go fix yourself
a sandwich  . . .  it ’ s going to take a while for things to get installed.