
CHAPTER 1 ■ GETTING STARTED WITH XNA 3.0
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How It Works
Installing Visual Studio 2008
XNAGameStudio3.0requiresVisualStudio2008tobeinstalledonyourPC.Ifthisisnotyet
thecase,youcandownloadtheVisualC#2008ExpressEditionforfree.
To do this, go to www.microsoft.com/express/download/andfindtheVisualC#2008
ExpressEditionbox(makesureyouselecttheC#edition,indicatedbythegreencolor).Select
the language of your choice, and hit the Download button. This will download a very small file,
which you should run afterward.
During setup, use the default selections and hit Next until the program starts download-
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