ASP .NET Tutorial: Prerequisites to work with ASP.NET:

Prerequisites to work with ASP.NET:

How can we draw without having the wall? Likewise to develop ASP.NET applications we require some things in our development system. Check it with your system.

1.Execution Environment
2.Development Kit
3.IDE
4.Web Server
5.Editor

Execution Environment:

You might come across JVM java virtual machine, which provides the execution environment for java applications. Likewise the .NET provides the execution environment for .NET applications. .NET Framework Redistributable is the execution environment that .NET provides. It has Common Language Runtime, Common Type System etc., downloadable at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=262D25E3-
F589-4842-8157-034D1E7CF3A3&displaylang=en

Development Kit:

In general Development kit includes compiler, debugger etc. .NET Framework SDK comes with compilers csc.exe, vbc.exe, jsc.exe for Csharp, VB.NET, J# languages respectively.

Downloadable at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9B3A2CA6-
3647-4070-9F41-A333C6B9181D&displaylang=en

IDE:
Integrated Development Environments makes the application development process easier and reduces our development time.

Popular IDEs for .NET application developments are:

Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003
This IDE can be used for developing desktop applications, web applications and web services.

SharpDevelop [#develop]
It is a free IDE for C# and VB.NET projects on Microsoft's .NET platform.

Downloadable at:
http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Default.aspx

ASP.NET Web Matrix
ASP.NET Web Matrix is a community-supported, easy-to-use WYSIWYG
application development tool for ASP.NET.

Downloadable at:
http://www.asp.net/DownloadWizard.aspx?
tabIndex=4&WizardTarget=WebMatrix

Web Server:
In order to develop and test the web application we develop, a web server is required. Microsoft’s Internet Information Server [IIS] is well suited for this.

Editor:
If you don’t want to use IDEs you can use simple editors.

·Notepad
·EditPlus
·TextPad

So check out:

You have IIS, Microsoft Internet explorer 5.1 or higher, .NET Framework Redistributable get installed.

Then desire to use IDEs or simple editors. It’s your choice. If you use simple editors you will need to code each and every line of your application. And you will be miss the features provided by IDEs.