What You Need for This Book

This book describes how to build a Social Network using ASP.NET, C#, and SQL Server. To use this book effectively, you will need access to a version of Visual Studio and SQL Server. Most of this book can be used with the various Express editions of Visual Studio and SQL Express, but you will find that having the Professional edition of Visual Studio will make your work flow more efficient. As we are not just discussing ASP.NET, but are instead more interested in what is needed for the features of social networking, there may be times when we turn to an open source solution. All the examples in this book will clearly point out where to get the needed software, and how to configure that software as we work through our examples.