Minimum disk space for Windows 7/VS2010/Expression 3 etc

Minimum disk space for Windows 7/VS2010/Expression 3 etc I'm about to boot camp my at home PC (a Mac, if not obvious) with the intention of only doing some .NET development on it. I have about 60GB to work with, so only want enough room for the Windows install, Visual Studio and any other related libraries and apps.
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"Based on my VS2008 installation (which comes in at 2.94 GMB) and Expression 3 (at 476 MB) with Windows XP (14.9 GB) & assuming that VS2010 and Windows 7 are going to take up more space, it looks like you're going to need at least 25 GB for the basic set up.

There are a number of other folders that get created - Microsoft SDKs (780 MB) for example which will push the total up higher.

Someone else will no doubt provide the exact size of a Windows 7 installation, but when I ran the update advisor it stated that I needed 16 GB of free space to install Windows 7,

Taking all this into account it looks like you'll need a high proportion of your 60 GB.

If you have the MSDN subscription I'd go for one of the high end Windows 7 installations."