What Do You Need?

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To make use of this book, you need to be able to compile and execute code written in C#. This means you will require either:

• The .NET Framework SDK obtainable from Microsoft's MSDN site (http://msdn.microsoft.com), in the Software Development Kits category. The download page at time of publication could be reached via the following URL:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/000/976/msdncompositedoc.xml

• A version of Visual Studio .NET that incorporates Visual C# .NET. The 2002 edition of the Visual C# .NET IDE is included with the following Microsoft products:

  • Microsoft Visual C# .NET Standard

  • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect

  • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Developer

  • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Professional

  The product homepage is at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/.

There are several .NET implementations for other platforms underway, and support for C# compilation on Linux, UNIX, and Windows is provided by the Mono project (http://www.gomono.com/). Mono code does not have access to the full Microsoft .NET class library, but follows the same syntactic rules as Microsoft's C#. The threading model is not guaranteed to be the same as it is in .NET, but implementations of the classes and facilities described in this book are part of the Mono platform's goals, so the lessons described in this book should apply. However, the code in this book has not been tested with Mono.

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