Introducing ASP.NET—Installing Visual Web Developer 2005

Microsoft .NET Framework, ASP.NET, Visual C# (CSharp, C Sharp, C-Sharp) Developer Training, Visual Studio

Installing Visual Web Developer 2005

Visual Web Developer automates many of the tasks that you’d need to complete yourself in other environments, and includes many powerful features. For the first exercises in this book, we’ll recommend you use a simple text editor such as Notepad, but you’ll gradually learn how to use Visual Web Developer to ease some of the tasks we’ll tackle.

So let’s install this tool to make sure we’ll have it ready when we need it.

1. Go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/ and click the Download link.

2. Execute the downloaded file.

3. Accept the default options. At one point, you’ll be asked about installing Microsoft MSDN 2005 Express Edition, which is the product’s documentation. It wouldn’t hurt to install it, but you need to be patient, because it’s quite big. (Note that you’ve already installed the .NET Framework 2.0 documentation, together with the SDK.)

Bonus!

If you’ve already installed the .NET Framework 2.0 SDK, you’ve already installed Microsoft MSDN 2005 Express Edition.

In this book, we’ll start using Visual Web Developer to build real web applications in ???. Until then, we’ll create examples using Notepad (or another simple text editor) so you’re prepared to take full advantage of the features offered by Visual Web Developer when the time comes to use it.