System Requirements for Visual Studio .NET 2003

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Requirements vary for different combinations of components within Visual Studio .NET 2003. Review the table below to determine the minimum system requirements for running Visual Studio .NET 2003.

Visual Studio .NET 2003 (All Editions)

To use Visual Studio .NET 2003, you need:

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 XP Media Center Edition Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 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 XP Media Center Edition Windows XP Tablet PC 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 XP Media Center Edition: 160 MB of RAM Windows XP Tablet PC Edition: 160 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/li>
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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