Installing Visual Studio 2010

The first step in preparing a workstation for development with ASP.NET is to install Visual Studio 2010. Visual Studio is Microsoft’s integrated development environment (IDE), a tool that you will most likely have used if you have done any prior development for a Microsoft platform.

Microsoft produces a range of different Visual Studio 2010 editions, each of which has a different set of functions and attracts a different price. For this book, you will require one of the following editions:

  • Visual Studio 2010 Professional
  • Visual Studio 2010 Premium
  • Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate

The features that we require are available in all three editions, and all three editions are equally suited to our purposes. Install Visual ...

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