title: Building webparts with Visual Studio 2010 Express
body: <p>I'm trying to get started with building my own webparts, planning to follow this <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms452873.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MSDN article</a>.</p>
  
  <p>I've downloaded Visual C# 2010 Express - I'm not quite at the point where I feel comfortable dropping 1000 big ones yet, and I installed Visual Web Developer 2010 Express via the WPInstaller.</p>
  
  <p>Following through the tutorial, aside from the fact that I don't get the option to create a "Web Control Library", a gap I filled with <a href="http://www.hezser.de/blog/archive/2007/04/15/create-a-simple-webpart-howto.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this article</a>, I can't seem to find the sn.exe tool (or the "Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt"!).</p>
  
  <p>I know it's not quite a direct programming related question, but I can't even get the thing going yet!</p>
  
  <p>Any help is appreciated.
  Thanks</p>
  
  <p>EDIT:-</p>
  
  <p>I think I may be jumping the gun quite considerably, I wrote a simple hello world example and tried to build it but it doesn't have any references to the <code>Microsoft.SharePoint</code> packages and they don't appear in my lists.</p>
  
  <p>Am I understanding some more research I've done (namely <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/581050/sharepoint-development-environment-setup">this</a>) correctly, in that I have to actually have a full installation of actual SharePoint on the machine I'm developing on?</p>