Throughout the course I will be posting sample programs to illustrate topics in lecture.  This lesson takes you through the process of downloading and opening the programs.  These instructions assume that you are using a recent version of Internet Explorer and Windows XP or Vista.

Sequence

Start by navigating to the web page where the zip file is located.

1. On the web page RIGHT-click the ___.zip file and choose "Save Target As".
2. In the file navigation dialog choose a location that you would like--you may want to create a folder somewhere for all of the sample programs.
3. You should be prompted to either open the file or open the folder--choose Open the Folder.
4. You should see the ___.zip file in the folder. Right click it and choose "Extract All..." from the menu. This should take you through dialog to unzip the files. You can change the location but there is really no reason to. This process will create a new folder that will contain all of the project files.
5. Start Visual Studio.
6. Select Open | Project... from the Start Page or File | Open | Project
7. In the file open dialog navigate to the location where the extracted files are and look for the file with the ".sln" extension. Select this file and you should have the project opened up.

Notes

1. In theory you should be able to start Visual Studio by double-clicking the ___.sln file in Windows Explorer.  This was very problematic in earlier versions of VS to the point that I don't even try.  I recommend that you always start VS and then navigate to the ___.sln file to open it.