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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