Downloading, Installing and Registration of Visual Studio 2013 Express Edition

In this text you'll find description of installation of Visual Studio 2013 Express Edition.

Where to download Visual Studio 2013 Express Edition?

First, go to: !2?http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs?2!. On this page you can choose Visual Studio version for downloading, interface language and type of installation. We need Visual Studio 2013 Express Edition for Windows Desktop. This version allows to right programs on C++.

On this page you can choose type of installation: installation file or DVD ISO. In this lesson I'll describe installation of Visual Studio 2013 with installation file. Click needed link and we'll see next window:

Yes, to download Visual Studio you must have so called Microsoft account. If you don't have one, click Sign up now:

He you'll need to fill the form. Then, click 'I accept' and... We are almost done. Just fill one more small form and you can start downloading (this screenshot in russian, just click where red arrow points):

Now we have file wdexpress_full.exe on our computer. Launch it:

In this window choose where to install Visual Studio 2013 Express Edition, accept the license terms and click Installl.

After installation is completed the program offers to restart the computer. Don't refuse such a good deal. Then you can start your version of Visual Studio 2013 Express Edition. You can find it in the menu Start

On this page you need to enter Microsoft acoount. Use e-mail and password that you used earlier. You can not singing in, but in that case you'll can use Visual Studio 2013 Express Edition for a period of time.

That's it for today. Now we should know a little better Visual Studio interface and then we can start learning programming.