System Requirements

System Requirements

Most samples in this book are written in C or C++ and require Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, although most of the samples written in C/C++ work fine with most compilers, including Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0. The Perl examples have been tested using ActiveState Perl 5.6 or ActivateState Visual Perl 1.0 from http://www.activestate.com. Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition and JScript code was tested with Windows Scripting Host included with Windows 2000 and later. 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.

All the applications but two in this book will run on computers running Windows 2000 that meet recommended operating system requirements. The Safer sample in Chapter 7 and the UTF8 MultiByteToWideChar sample in Chapter 11 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.