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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 give you outstanding performance, but it will add dramatically to the $0 you’re spending on
Visual C# Express Edition.
CONVENTIONS
To help you get the most from the text and keep track of what’s happening, we’ve used several
conventions throughout the book.
SPLENDID SIDEBARS
Sidebars such as this one contain additional information and side topics.
Boxes with a warning icon like this one hold important, not-to-be forgotten
information that is directly relevant to the surrounding text.
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