What software you need
You can use either Visual Studio .NET or Visual Basic
.NET 2002/2003 with this book.
In fact, you can do almost everything in this book
with the Standard Edition of Visual Basic .NET (the
least expensive version). However, that version doesn’t
include the following: the XML Designer that’s
described in parts of chapters 7 and 9; Crystal Reports,
which is covered in chapter 16; and the tools for designing
SQL Server databases that are shown in chapter 17. If
you need any of these features, you’ll have to
use the Professional Edition of Visual Studio .NET.
If you want to run database and web applications on
your PC (as opposed to using a database or web server
on a network), you also need to install MSDE and IIS
on your PC. MSDE is the desktop database engine that
comes with Visual Studio or Visual Basic 2002/2003.
IIS is the web server that comes with Windows, except
for Windows XP Home Edition (if you’re using that
version of Windows, you can’t run web applications
from your own PC). To learn how to install these products
as well as Visual Studio or Visual Basic, please refer
to appendix A in this book.
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