System Requirements
This being the new millennium, you need a lot of horsepower to develop and run any modern Windows application, no less so for .NET. Fortunately, memory and disk space are modestly priced commodities these days.
Microsoft officially recommends a 600 MHz Pentium III-class processor or better for developing .NET applications, and RAM ranging from 96 to 256 MB, depending on the operating system. The application will run fine, if slowly, on a 300 MHz machine with 512 MB of RAM. However, as with money and brains, you can never have too much memory, and we recommend the biggest, fastest machine you can afford with at least 512 MB of RAM if at all possible.
Tip
Visual Studio .NET is a program that benefits from a lot of
screen real estate, so a large, high-resolution monitor makes the
development experience much more productive. You should consider a
screen resolution of 1024 × 768 to be the minimum. Both
authors of this book use high-speed Pentium machines with 512 MB of
RAM and two large monitors running at 1280 × 1024, powered
by an Appian (http://www.apian.com) dual-headed graphics
adapter.
To develop .NET applications, the minimum you will need to install is a supported version of Windows (NT 4 Workstation or Server, 2000 Professional or Server, XP Professional, or .NET Server) and the .NET Software Development Kit (SDK) (downloadable from Microsoft). This software will provide all necessary documentation, compilers and tools, the .NET Framework, and the CLR. You will ...
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