Things you will need:

• A PC running that is running either Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 or XP Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1, Windows 64 or Windows Vista.
• A fast Internet connection to the PC where you are going to install Visual C# 2008 Express Edition. (You're going to download huge amount of files, and using dial-up can be such a major pain downloading this.)
• A Hotmail or Windows Live account as you will be required to register with Microsoft. If you already have a Hotmail or Windows Live account then you could use that. If not, then you will need to sign up for an account. (It's free.)

Downloading and Installation Tutorial

Click this to download the Visual C# 2008 Express Edition Web Install Setup.

Download the 3Mb file. This is a small download but it is the first part of a much larger set of files so don't attempt this unless you have a DSL or faster Internet connection.

The total download is well over 300Mb with the .NET 3.5 framework and MSDN or 30Mb for just the C# Part.

You'll be going through the acceptance of license terms and you're also given the chance to accept receiving RSS content when you're on the web. This is a good thing as you get notifications of free content, lessons, offers and updates in a much less intrusive manner than by email.

You should include the MSDN 2008 Express Edition in the download unless you have done this already for the Visual C++ download.

It contains projects, source code and help so it has to be downloaded, but only once

You have to install the software somewhere and the default selection "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\".

You can also review the full list of things that will be installed.

• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. You need this to run C# 2008.
• SDKs for Express Tools for .NET and Win 32.
• Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition
• Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5

You'll have to wait patiently downloading it, as it may take some time. Having a very fast internet connection would make the download much easier.

After downloading and Installing, run Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition. This will try to connect to the Internet and that's ok. It is just checking to download news of new articles and downloads and check for updates.

You now have 30 days to register to get a registration key. The key will be emailed to you within a few minutes. Once you have it, run Visual C# 2008 Express Edition, hit Help and Register Product then enter your registration code.

That completes the Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition Installation.

You may check out installing Miscrosoft Visual Basic 2008 as well.