What software you need
Software option #1:
Full editions of Visual Studio 2008
To develop database applications using Visual Basic 2008, you can use any of the full editions of Visual Studio 2008, including the Standard Edition, Professional Edition, or Team System. All of these come with everything you need, including the Visual Studio development environment, version 3.5 of the Microsoft .NET Framework, Visual Basic 2008 (and C# 2008), a built-in web server that's ideal for testing ASP.NET applications, and a scaled-back version of SQL Server called SQL Server Express for database handling.
Software option #2:
Free Express editions of Visual Studio components
You can also download Express editions of Visual Studio components from Microsoft's website to develop the applications in this book:
- Visual Basic 2008 Express
- Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (if you want to run the ASP.NET sample applications in chapters 15 and 20)
Both of these products are free, and both of them give you an option to install SQL Server 2008 Express. So together, they provide all of the components you need to develop the applications for this book.
Please note, though, that these Express editions are
scaled-back versions of what you get in the full editions
of Visual Studio. That's why you'll find that some of
the user interfaces are simpler than the ones in our
book, which are all based on the Professional Edition.
Nevertheless, these are terrific products for gaining the programming skills you need to work with ADO.NET 3.5, LINQ, and the Entity Framework. And both the applications and skills that you develop using these Express editions will work with any of the full editions of Visual Studio 2008.
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