System Requirements for Visual Studio .NET

Minimum Requirements
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

Drive CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
Display Super VGA (1024 x 768) or higher-resolution display with 256 colors
Mouse Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device

¹ Limited functionality. Visual Studio .NET 2003 does not support creating ASP.NET Web applications or ASP.NET XML Web services when using Windows XP Home Edition.
² ASP.NET Web applications and XML Web services can only be hosted on Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003.

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