Installation
The click-through-installer will guide you through the intallation process. The installer lets you select the Visual Studio Version for which you want Visual D to be installed. It will always install for all users, not only for a single user.
To compile your application, you must have DMD installed.
Visual D does not work with any of the Express version of Visual Studio. Other than the commercial editions, the Express versions do not support loading third party extensions and add-ins.
A free alternative are the integrated Visual Studio Shell distributions, that can be downloaded here: (VS Shell 2008 and VS Shell 2010). The shells are identical with the Visual Studio IDE, but stripped of any language support. It still contains the native debugger that can be used to debug D applications.
For debugging applications, you should also install cv2pdb which is now included in the Visual D installer. Please make sure, changes to Common7\Packages\Debugger\autoexp.dat do not mix with previous manual installations of cv2pdb.
Unfortunately, the Visual Studio Shell is missing one file, that is needed for the conversion of the debug information by cv2pdb. This is msobj80.dll for VS2008 and msobj100.dll for VS2010 and must be extracted from a standard installation, the Visual C Express edition or the Windows SDK. You might also find it installed by other Microsoft products. Put this file alongside mspdbcore.dll, normally in <VS-installation-path>\Common7\IDE.