Re; Do I absolutely need to have Windows XP Professional?

[piscis]

Gentlemen:

Does anyone knows if I absolutely need to have Windows XP Professional in order to open and develop database applications in VS.NET Enterprise edition 2003 (database is MS Access)

I’m using Windows XP Home edition and have tried to open more than 10 database samples and got the same error message on every single one of them. “Object reference not set to an instance of the object”

I tried to build one testing database and when it comes to the part where you choose DATA > GENERATE DATABASE I got another error and the Datagrid will not bound to any table.

Please let me know if the problem is Windows XP Professional. It is anyone out there opening and building databases with Windows XP Home edition?


Thanks


Andy

 

[PankajBanga]

visit the following link on System Requirements for Visual Studio .NET 2003

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/productinfo/sysreqs/default.aspx

 

[jfrost10]

If you ever want to do asp.net development with visual studio, then you'll need a version of the operating system that has IIS on it (windows 2k or Windows XP PRO).

So if you have XP Home, and you're just donig desktop development, you should be fine. But keep in mind the web side of things.

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