How to install Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

This is our first in a series of Visual Studio 2008 tutorials. In this lesson we will simply get Visual Studio 2008 installed for the first time. We will start with a fairly fresh Windows 2003 server, but the same process will work for Windows XP or Vista, of course. Once you have completed following along with this tutorial, you will have Visual Studio 2008 installed and running on your computer. Whether you will be focusing on C#, Visual Basic, ASP, C++, or whatever, this is the first step in working with VS2008.