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Product: Visual Studio .NET 2003
Company: Microsoft
Website: http://www.microsoft.com
Estimated Street Price: See Pricing
Review By: Robert Downey (RMD)

System Requirements

Table of Contents
1: Introduction
2: Setup & Installation
3: Pricing & System Requirements
4: The Start Page

5: IDE
6: New Features - Part 1
7: New Features - Part 2
8: New Features - Part 3
9: What's Missing or Malignant
10: Conclusion

"Visual Studio .NET 2003 is the comprehensive tool for rapidly building Microsoft .NET–connected applications for Microsoft Windows® and the Web, dramatically increasing developer productivity, and enabling new business and enterprise opportunities.

Explore the features in each of the three Visual Studio .NET 2003 editions: Enterprise Architect, Enterprise Developer, and Professional.
"

Requirements vary for different combinations of components within Visual Studio .NET 2003. Review the table below to determine the minimum system requirements for running Visual Studio .NET 2003.

Processor 450-megahertz (MHz) Pentium II-class processor,
600-MHz Pentium III-class processor recommended
Operating System Visual Studio .NET 2003 can be installed onto any of the following systems:
  • Microsoft Windows® Server 2003
  • Windows XP Professional
  • Windows XP Home Edition¹
  • Windows 2000 Professional (SP3 or later required for installation)
  • Windows 2000 Server (SP3 or later required for installation)

Applications can be deployed onto the following systems²:

  • Windows Server 2003
  • Windows XP Professional
  • Windows XP Home Edition
  • Windows 2000 (Service Pack 2 recommended)
  • Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me)
  • Windows 98
  • Microsoft Windows NT® 4.0 (Service Pack 6a required)
  • Windows 95 (using Microsoft Visual C++® .NET)
Memory
  • Windows Server 2003:
    160 megabytes (MB) of RAM
  • Windows XP Professional:
    160 MB of RAM
  • Windows XP Home Edition:
    96 MB of RAM
  • Windows 2000 Professional:
    96 MB of RAM
  • Windows 2000 Server:
    192 MB of RAM
Hard Disk
  • 900 MB of available space required on system drive, 3.3 gigabytes (GB) of available space required on installation drive
  • Additional 1.9 GB of available space required for optional MSDN Library documentation


Pricing

  • Professional: $1079
    • Upgrade: $549
  • Enterprise Developer: $1799
    • Upgrade: $1079
  • Enterprise Architect: $2499
    • Upgrade: $1799

 

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