Installing Visual Studio Web Developer 2010 on Windows 7, Installing ASP.NET and creating a hello world web application on localhost hand holding walkthrough.


Install Visual Studio Web Developer 2010 Express Edition.
Install this wpilauncher_n.exe
Installing.
Using the web platform installer.
Click install, installing Visual Web deveoper.
Also installing the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 dependency.
This process took maybe 5 hours with a 3Mbps download speed. I left it overnight. (make sure your computer does not hibernate after 30 minutes).
yeah!
Start it up the first time.
Welcome Screen.
Click "Learn" on the welcome screen, click "build your first web app" button. Click install ASP.NET and Visual Studio Express Tools. Click green button.
Yes I want to install it. Click another green button.
Yes I Really want to install it. Click green button 3rd time.
Working.
Done with extra tools.
Installed WAS .NET Environment (Dependency), .NET Extensibility, WAS Process Model (Dependency), ISAPI Extensions, ISAPI Filters, Static Content Compresion, Default Document, Directory Browsing, HTTP Errors.
This will only take 10 minutes.
Installed lots of items.
Go back to where you were building your first web application.
File -> new project.
New Visual C# ASP.NET Web application.
Start Debugging F5.
pulls open the hello world web app.
This is just the beginning.