May 2010
Beginner to intermediate
551 pages
18h 34m
English
Content preview from Stephens' C# Programming with Visual Studio® 2010 24-Hour Trainer
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INTRODUCTION
Visual Studio Developer Center
(msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio): This page contains links
to Visual Studio information such as downloads, “quick tour” articles, and other resources.
Visual Studio Express Edition home page
(www.microsoft.com/express/product): This
page contains information about Express Editions of Visual Studio products such as Visual
Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, and Visual Web Developer.
At a minimum, visit the Visual C# Express Edition home page (
www.microsoft.com/express/
vcsharp
) and download and install Visual C# Express Edition. You should also occasionally check
the Visual C# home page for service packs and extra tools that may be available.
Running any version of Visual Studio will require that you have a reasonably fast, modern computer
with a large hard disk and lots of memory. For example, I’m fairly happy running my Intel Core 2
system at 1.83 GHz with 2GB of memory and a huge 500GB hard drive. That’s a lot more disk
space than necessary but disk space is relatively cheap, so why not buy a lot?
You can run Visual Studio on much less powerful systems but using an underpowered computer
can be extremely slow and frustrating. Visual Studio has a big memory footprint, so if you’re
having performance problems, installing more memory may help.
Of course, buying a superfast quad-core desktop system with 6GB of RAM and 1TB of disk space
will giv ...
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