About the Companion CD

About the Companion CD

All the sample code is on the companion CD that accompanies this book. The code has been tested using post beta 2 builds of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and running on Microsoft Windows 2000 Server with Service Pack 2 installed. To use the Web Forms samples, Internet Information Services (IIS) must be installed. You should install IIS before you install Visual Studio .NET. If you install Visual Studio .NET first, you might see the following error message:

Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging on the Web server.  The server does not support debugging of ASP.NET or ATL Server applications.  Run setup to install the Visual Studio .NET server components.  If setup has been run verify that a valid URL has been specified. You may also want to refer to the ASP.NET and ATL Server debugging topic in the online documentation.  Would you like to disable future attempts to debug ASP.NET pages for this project?

To fix this problem try the following steps (see the Visual Studio .NET online help for more information):

1. Make sure IIS and the Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions are installed using Add/Remove Windows Components in Add/Remove Programs.

2. Uninstall the .NET Framework in Add/Remove Programs.

3. Rerun Visual Studio .NET setup, and reinstall the .NET Framework.

The sample programs developed in Chapters 10, 11, and 12, about ADO.NET, also require Microsoft SQL Server 2000, and one sample program requires Microsoft Access 2000 or Microsoft Access 2002. You must have sufficient rights to install and run these applications.

Note that the final version of Visual Studio .NET was not available when this book went to press. The programs were tested against Visual Studio .NET release candidate 2, but changes in the final version might require small modifications to the sample programs.

System Requirements

You'll need the following software to run the samples included on the companion CD:

• Microsoft Visual Studio .NET

• Microsoft Windows 2000 or Microsoft Windows XP

• IIS 5 or later

• Microsoft SQL Server 2000

• Microsoft Access 2000 or Microsoft Access 2002

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