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copied!<p>Your question turned to be a question about a plan for learning programming, which is a very very long plan. I will give you here the <strong>beginning tips</strong> from my personal view: </p> <p>1- Learning how to use the IDE (Visual Studio) is not the <strong>main</strong> issue, learning the language (C#) and the technology (.NET) is <strong>more</strong> important.</p> <p>2- More important than learning a programming language, is learning <strong>How to program?</strong>, that is: you should learn Algorithms, data structures, software engineering, database design, ...etc. besides learning the programming language.</p> <p>3- If you are a beginner, VS Express will fulfill most of your needs, as you upgrade your skills, you will find it has some limitations. You can find a comparison between different Visual Studio Editions <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zcbsd3cz%28VS.80%29.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>. </p> <p>4- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is the new Microsoft's way for building <strong>Cool</strong> Desktop applications, but you still need the traditional WinForms.</p> <p>5- The world is going <strong>Web</strong>, then you have to check the ASP.NET paths (ASP.NET, ASP.NET Ajax, ASP.NET MVC). The Web counterpart of WPF is SilverLight (which was formerly a part of the WPF itself). </p> <p>6- As per <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/express/support/support-faq.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">VS Express FAQ</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The ability to target a version of the .NET Framework other than 3.5 (i.e. multi-targeting) is included in all the Visual Studio Express Edition products. Multi-targeting is available under the Project Properties menu which can be selected by going to Project-> Properties.</p> </blockquote>

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