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The first major requirement is that you should require a system running
either Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP Professional or Windows
2003 Server. Windows XP Home Edition doesn't support .NET. It is not
recommended to work with C# on Windows 98 systems as it is not
compatible for developing server side applications or ASP.NET. Microsoft
Windows code named “Longhorn” will completely support .NET Framework.
However, Longhorn is still in the alpha stage and is at present
available only for limited users. Linux also supports C# with the help of Mono C# compiler Kit. You will find more information regarding Mono from http://www.go-mono.com Secondly, you should install .NET Framework SDK which can be downloaded from the website of Microsoft located at http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/ Windows 2003 Server ships with .NET Framework and hence there is no need to install the SDK separately. However, it doesn’t comes with Visual Studio .NET. Finally, you require an editor to enter codes. In programming parlance, codes are called as source codes. They are nothing but syntaxes which adheres to the C# language conventions. Notepad is one of the most popular editors among many programmers. Even though Notepad is sufficient to learn C#, it would be fine if you have Visual Studio .NET. It ships with Visual C# .NET, which offers many advanced functionalities than a traditional editor like Notepad. You will learn more about Visual C# .NET in chapter 2. Many third party vendors have released editors for programming with C# and other .NET languages. Notable among them are SharpDevelop and Antechinus C# Editor. You can also create HTML, XML, XSL and ASCX files using these editors. |
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