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Installing the Required Software

features to your web site, and to reuse them in many places with a minimum of effort.

You can get excellent tools that assist in developing ASP.NET web applications. Visual Web Developer 2005 is a free, powerful visual editor that includes features such as code autocompletion, code formatting, database integration functionality, a visual HTML editor, debugging, and more. In the course of this book, you’ll learn how to use this tool to build the examples we discuss.

The .NET Framework was first available only to the Windows platform, but thanks to projects such as Mono,1 it’s since been ported to other operating systems.

Still with me? Great! It’s time to gather our tools and start building!

Installing the Required Software

If you’re going to learn ASP.NET, you first need to make sure you have all the necessary software components installed and working on your system. Let’s take care of this before we move on.

Internet Information Services (IIS) or Cassini

IIS is the web server of choice for running ASP.NET web applications. You’ll need your copy of the Windows CD to install and configure it. Unfortunately, some versions of Windows (such as Windows XP Home Edition) don’t support IIS. If you’re one of those users, there’s Cassini. Cassini is a small web server designed for hobbyists who are looking to build ASP.NET web sites.

It isn’t as robust, powerful, or user-friendly as IIS, but it will be sufficient for our purposes. When we come to use Visual Web Developer in Chapter 5, we’ll be making use of that product’s built-in development web server, so not having access to IIS on your system won’t be a problem.

a modern web browser

Throughout this book, we’ll be using Internet Explorer 6, but you can use other browsers during development if you wish. Any modern browser will do.

.NET Framework 2.0

As we’ve already discussed, the .NET Framework drives ASP.NET. When you install the .NET Framework, you’ll automatically install the files necessary

1 http://www.mono-project.com/

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