I have Visual Studio 2010 installed, but that’s about it.
I am not sure what else is needed to be installed in order to start going through the many C# (accessing SQL Server) available out there.
Tips and links to a step-by-step dev env setup instruction are greatly appreciated.
You have Visual Studio 2010,, you are done, it comes installed with a SQL compact library and an SQL express server. You are good to go.
For SQL server management you can download Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express