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In order to work effectively with Visual Studio .NET, you should have the software set up either on your desktop or on a server in a location where you can access it so that you can not only build your applications but test them as well. In this illustration we show you at a desktop computer, connected to the server that has Visual Studio .NET, and IIS and SQL Server loaded on it through the Internet. In this illustration we show you at your desktop, connected across your local area network or wide area network to your server. Of course you can also work directly from the server, as we do throughout our examples. Now let's take a look at the system requirements of Visual Studio .NET, the easiest way to do this is to go to the Microsoft site. So let's click on Internet Explorer and put in www.microsoft.com and let's go to developer tools, this brings us right to the Visual Studio .NET page and if we look under product information and go to the product information overview, plenty of information on here about Visual Studio .NET, including system requirements. So let's go ahead and click on system requirements, we should see operating systems, and hardware and software and so forth that need to be installed and running before we try to do anything with Visual Studio .NET. For example a personal computer PC with Pentium II class processor, 450 MHz and a number of different RAM requirements depending on the operating system you are running, you're running Microsoft Windows 2000 server which we'll verify for you in just a moment, you can see there's a few other hardware requirements here as far as software goes, when you install the server, Microsoft Windows 2000 advanced server which we are using, you should install Internet Information Services, IIS, which is a Web server, and for this course, it would be helpful if you were to install SQL Server, a very nice enterprise database product of Microsoft's that we use extensively throughout our examples, applications and exercises. Now if you're connecting through a local area network or across the Internet to a server, you may be running some form of desktop operating system and that's perfectly fine, you can have Visual Studio .NET loaded on your desktop, as long as it meets the system requirements we just looked at. If you are not sure what operating system you're running or what kind of a system you are set up on. Click on start, go to help from the desktop and you can see, it will tell you what operating system you are running. One of the key software components that should be installed, if you intend to write web applications is a Web server. In this particular case we are using the Internet Information Server, it comes with Windows 2000 Advanced Server, so let's a look at the screen that let's us get into Internet Information Server and make some adjustments to the Properties window and so forth and properly set it up. We'll take a look at it now and we are going to come back to this particular screen from time to time later on, We go ahead and click start, and programs, assuming that you are on a server or you can get to Internet Information Server, go to administrative tools, and you will find Internet Services Manager in there, go ahead and click on that, and open it up and just to get some idea of what's in there, let's do a click on the default website and then do a right click and go to Properties window, Properties window, my favorite place, as you can see this is the Properties window sheet for the default website and there's quite a few different tabs in here that let you set up and control how Internet Information Services works with your web applications. We are not going into them now, just want to make sure that you know they're here. Likewise, we're running Microsoft's SQL Server 2000 and there's a screen that you can get into that shows you how it's set up, and allows you to make databases and tables and so forth. Let's take a look at that, click start, programs, SQL server and you want to find Enterprise Manager, that's your tool to get into SQL Server 2000. As you can see I am clicking through a series of nodes here to get me into databases and so forth, so I can work with SQL Server, now in here I can make plenty of changes, I can add tables, I can add fields, I can add records, I can perform queries, set up stored procedures and so forth and later on in this course we will get into doing that in conjunction with writing both web applications and Windows applications.