What You Need for This Book

The prerequisite for this book is a working installation of Community Server. To run Community Server the typical environment consists of IIS (5.1 or greater), .NET Framework (1.1 or greater), a Database System (SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, or SQL Server 2005 Express Edition) and a Development Environment (Visual Studio .NET 2003, Visual Studio 2005, or Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition). We cover the details of prerequisites and installation of Community Server in Chapter 2.