#181 – Creating a WPF Development Environment

To start developing WPF applications on Windows, you need to install Visual Studio 2010 on Windows.

The bare minimum setup includes:

• Visual Studio 2010 Express (pick a single language)

A more typical professional development environment would include:

• Visual Studio 2010 (Professional or Ultimate)
• Expression Blend 4

[Click here for a screen-by-screen example of installing Visual Studio C# 2010 Express).