System Requirements

System Requirements

Most samples in this book are written in C or C++ and require Microsoft Visual C++ 6 with Service Pack 3 or later; a small number were created using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET because they take advantage of newer class features. The Perl examples have been tested using ActiveState Perl 5.6 from www. activestate.com. Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition and JScript code was tested with Windows Scripting Host included with Windows 2000 and Windows XP. All SQL examples were tested using Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Finally, Visual Basic .NET and Visual C# applications were written and tested using Visual Studio .NET beta 2.

All the applications but two in this book will run on computers running Windows 2000 that meet recommended operating system requirements. The CreateSaferProcess sample in Chapter 5 and the UTF-8 MultiByteToWideChar sample in Chapter 12 require Windows XP or Windows .NET Server to run correctly. Compiling the code requires somewhat beefier machines that comply with the requirements of the compiler being used.