What You Need to Use This Book

Introduction
byJohn Kauffman, Fabio Claudio Ferracchiatiet al.?
Wrox Press ?2002

To run the examples in this book, you need to have a PC running the following:

• Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP

• The .NET Framework

• A version of Visual Studio .NET that includes, as a minimum, the Standard Edition of Visual Basic .NET

In addition, some of the examples use Microsoft Access and Microsoft SQL Server, but there is no requirement for you to own either. All of the important examples use the MSDE as their database engine, and this ships with all versions of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.