System Requirements

System Requirements

You'll need the following hardware and software to complete the exercises in this book:

• Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition with Service Pack 2 or Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1, or Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 (Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server is not supported)

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition or Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition

• 600 MHz Pentium or compatible processor (1 GHz Pentium recommended)

• 192 MB RAM (256 MB or more recommended)

• Video (800 x 600 or higher resolution) monitor with at least 256 colors (1024 x 768 High Color 16-bit recommended)

• CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive

• Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device

NOTE
This book and the practice files were tested using Visual Studio 2005 Standard and Visual Studio 2005 Professional. You might notice a few differences if you're using other editions of Visual Studio 2005. In particular, if you're using Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition, a few features will be unavailable to you.