To install DotNetNuke and a supporting database you need either Windows 2003 Server or Windows XP (development only). This book covers a basic install of DotNetNuke using a SQL Server database as the data provider. You must have access to either SQL Server 2000/2005 or MSDE/SQL Express (development only) on the same machine or a remote machine.
To participate in the development chapters, you need Visual Studio.NET 2003 and Visual Web Developer of Visual Studio 2005.