You’ll need the following hardware and software to build and run the code samples for this book:
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 or Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 (native install or Virtual Machine environments)
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition or Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition or Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite
For a native installation, we recommend at least a 1 GHz Pentium processor and 1 GB of RAM
For an installation on a Virtual PC image, we recommend a host computer with at least a 2 GHz Pentium processor and 2 GB of RAM