Introduction

• From a Command Prompt
• From Visual Studio
• Compiling without Visual Studio

    The examples in this book require the .Net Framework 2.0, as included with Visual Studio 2005. These examples will not compile with versions of Visual Studio prior to 2005. It is likely that these examples will work just fine with later releases of Visual Studio 2005.

    All of the examples were tested with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 2000. The examples should work just fine on any computer system that is capable of running Visual Studio 2005.

    Some of the examples make use of a database. A sample Microsoft Access MDB database is provided. You are not required to have a copy of Microsoft Access to use this MDB file. The examples will work just fine without Microsoft Access installed. Appendix D shows how to use the examples with several popular databases.

    When you download the examples, as covered in Appendix A, you will be given a file named CSharpHTTPRecipes.zip. This file's contents are shown in Figure B.1.

Figure B.1: The Examples Archive

    The examples can be ran by several methods. The examples can be ran from a command prompt. The examples can also be ran from an IDE, usually Visual Studio 2005. The next section will cover running the examples from a command prompt.