Getting Started

Before you begin to develop your applications for Windows Home Server using Visual Studio, there are a few things you should have in place. Read through each of the following sections to make sure that everything needed is installed and correctly configured.

Visual Studio IDE

All of the examples in this documentation assume that you are using the Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 IDE and that you are developing your application in Visual C# or Visual Basic.

If you do not have a copy of Visual Studio, you can download an Express Edition of Visual Studio 2008 free of charge.

Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions

You can download Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition, or Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition, at the Microsoft Web site (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=118766).

Note

Note that the Express Editions are not capable of creating deployment projects.

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

To work with the API for Windows Home Server, you need to have the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 installed. Using a previous version of the .NET Framework with the API for Windows Home Server is not supported. Later versions of the .NET Framework are supported, however version 2.0 is recommended. For more information about installing the .NET Framework, see the Microsoft Web site (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=81357).

Note

The .NET Framework 2.0 is automatically installed with Visual Studio 2005 and 2008.

See Also

Concepts

Developer's Guide
API Overview
Programming Tutorial
Third Party Software Integration