What do I need to set up a development environment for developing in C# & SQL Server? [closed]

Question

I have Visual Studio 2010 installed, but that's about it.

I am not sure what else is needed to be installed in order to start going through the many C# (accessing SQL Server) available out there.

Tips and links to a step-by-step dev env setup instruction are greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You have Visual Studio 2010,, you are done, it comes installed with a SQL compact library and an SQL express server. You are good to go.

For SQL server management you can download Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express

Answer 2

SQL Server express will definitely help you.

In fact you need two basic thing:

1. visual Studio (you got!)
2. SQL Server. For most case, SQL server express will do the job.

Just do the full install, all tools should be included: SQL Server Express