What you need for this book

This book presents a series of projects that demonstrates the features of SharePoint 2010 and Visual Studio 2010. In order to gain hands on experience of these features, it is recommended that you have a 64-bit Windows development machine with lots of memory.Chapter 1, List and Event Receivers of this book provides the list of software and links that you can refer to set up your development environment. If you do not have a license for this software, you can always get the trial version from the Microsoft website.

Alternatively, you can read through this book without working through the projects. There are plenty of screenshots that provide a good sense of how these solutions work. This is not a suitable approach for beginner programmers.