Hey, i've downloaded and known about XNA since the express edition. i used to visit this site often just to read some forums for tips though i have never programmed anything except for a simple pong game that runs so crappy i wouldn't even say its a game. The reason for that is because well i am only a kid, i am very busy, and after i finished that game and got bored of XNA i just sort of dropped it. About a week ago i came back to this site and saw all the new stuff and i said maybe i ought to give XNA an other try so i downloaded XNA 3.0 CTP not paying close attention to the CTP part and then after going through half a tutorial said "i gotta get 2.0". so i removed 3.0(which i regret cause now i have to redo the thing i was working on) and tried to download 2.0, but when it's installing it stops and says something like "Missing the follow requirements: Visual C# 2005 Express Edition With SP1" so i asked my dad about it and even he agreed with me, why would you need the sp1 for 2005 edition when i have plain old (well actually new) 2008 edition. so i decided to cooporate and try to download it on http://www.microsoft.com/express/default.aspx but the only thing they have there is Visual C#: 2008, 2008 with SP1 beta, and 2005, plain old 2005(which i also have). So please where i can download the right program or if there is a different way to install or somethin.

XNA 2.0 requires a "2005" Edition of C#.

Download Visual C# 2005 Express Edition here: http://www.microsoft.com/express/2005/download/default.aspx

Lower down on that same page is the link to download SP1, which you will need to install after you install Visual C# 2005 Express Edition.

If you are using Windows Vista there is a further update (also available on that page) that you will need to apply after installing SP1.

If you already have a version of C# 2005 installed you will need to install the appropriate version of SP1 for that "edition". If what you have is Express Edition then get it from the link above. If you have Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition or higher then get SP1 from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=BB4A75AB-E2D4-4C96-B39D-37BAF6B5B1DC&displaylang=en

2.0 only supports 2005, and doesn't support 2008 as it was released too late to have been supported. You're on the right track with downloaded/reinstalling C# 2005 Express, which is available at the link you mentioned via 'Previous Version' on the top right hand are of the page.

As for SP1, that is available here:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7B0B0339-613A-46E6-AB4D-080D4D4A8C4E&displaylang=en

You're after the SP1 update for C# Express, so that is "VS80sp1-KB926749-X86-INTL.exe", once that is installed, you should have no problems reinstalling XNA Game Studio 2.0. There was also no need to uninstall 3.0, 1.0/2.0/3.0 all live happily alongside each other, as do all version of Visual Studio, if in doubt, don't uninstall anything.

thanks guys, it was only a simple matter of scrollingt down a page but i had to be so impatient