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To get the most out of this book, you need to install Visual Studio and C#. You don't need any fancy version of Visual Studio or C# Professional Edition. In fact, Visual Studio Professional and the other full-featured versions don't really add all that much that you're likely to want to use for a long time. Mostly they add support for performing unit tests, managing test cases, profiling code, building code libraries, and performing other tasks that are more useful for programming teams than they are for individuals.

To work through this book, the Community Edition should be good enough. (And it's free!)

NOTE

In previous versions of Visual Studio, the free “starter” version was called Visual Studio Express Edition. Microsoft seems to be changing the name to Visual Studio Community Edition. It hasn't changed the name everywhere and some small differences exist between the earlier editions and the latest one, but you should be able to work with either version.

The following list describes some links that you may find useful for learning about and installing different Visual Studio products:

● Compare Visual Studio 2015 Offerings: www.visualstudio.com/products/compare-visual-studio-2015-products-vs.aspx

● Visual Studio homepage: msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio

● Visual C# resources: msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/hh341490.aspx

● Visual Studio free products page: www.visualstudio.com/products/free-developer-offers-vs

● Visual Studio Express: www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-express-vs.aspx

● Visual Studio Downloads: www.visualstudio.com/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs.aspx

● C# Express Edition homepage: www.microsoft.com/express/vcsharp

At a minimum, visit the Visual Studio Express Edition page (www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-express-vs) and download and install Visual Studio Community Edition.

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 1.60 GHz with 8 GB of memory and a huge 1 TB hard drive. (That's a lot more disk space than necessary but disk is relatively cheap.)