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considerably to the size of the download, both of them are invaluable for building ASP.NET web
applications. If you don’t see the SQL Server option, you already have it installed. The Microsoft
Silverlight Runtime component is optional, although it’s probably a good idea to download it now
because you’ll see more and more web sites using Silverlight in the near future. Click Next again.
4. On the Destination Folder page, you can leave the Install in folder field set to its default if you
have enough space on your primary disk. Otherwise, click the Browse button and select a differ-
ent location.
5. Click the Install button. If you’re using the web-based installer, the setup application will first
download the files over the Internet to your computer. During the installation process, you’ll
see a screen (similar to Figure 1-1) that shows you the progress of the download and installa-
tion of VWD.
6. Once the application is finished installing, you may get a dialog box asking to reboot your
machine. Click Restart now. Once your machine has started again, VWD is ready for use.
Figure 1-1
How It Works
The straightforward installation process guided you through the setup of VWD Express Edition. In the
Installer Options dialog box, you selected the MSDN Library — which contains the help files for VWD —
and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, Microsoft’s free version of its database engine. SQL Server
2005 is discussed and used a lot in this book, starting with Chapter 11. Appendix B shows you how to con-
figure security settings for the various versions of SQL Server 2005 using the free SQL Server Management
Studio Express Edition.
Now that VWD is installed, it’s time to fire it up and start working with it. The next section shows you how
to create your very first site in VWD. You see how to create a site, add content to a web page, and view that
page in your browser.
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