We wrote this book using Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2005 on a laptop running Windows Vista. You may want to copy this setup to follow the book, but any of the following will do:
- Operating systems
Windows XP or later will do, except to follow Chapter 18’s look at IIS 7.0, which is available only for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
- Visual Studio
The 2008 edition of Visual Web Developer (free to download) will be more than sufficient to follow this book. If you have a paid-for copy of Visual Studio 2008, so much the better.
- SQL Server
Any edition of SQL Server 2005 or 2008 will do. If you decide to follow this text using SQL Server 2008, please note that you will need to download a slightly different version of the sample database to follow the material in Chapters Chapter 7 through Chapter 10.
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