5.
nNote In this book, frequent mention is made to Windows Vista and Windows XP??”the two client operating
systems that WPF supports. It??™s easy to overlook that WPF actually runs on two related server versions of
Windows: Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
In order to create a WPF 3.5 application (and open the sample projects included with this
book), you need Visual Studio 2008, which includes the .NET Framework 3.5.
There??™s one other option. Instead of using any version of Visual Studio, you can use
Expression Blend??”a graphically oriented design tool??”to build and test WPF applications.
Overall, Expression Blend is intended for graphic designers who spend their time creating
serious eye candy, while Visual Studio is ideal for code-heavy application programmers. This
book assumes you??™re using Visual Studio. If you??™d like to learn more about Expression Blend,
you can consult one of many dedicated books on the subject.
Some of the examples in this book use ADO.NET data access code to query a SQL Server
database. To try out these examples, you can use the script file that??™s included with the sample
code to install the database (on SQL Server version 2000 or later). Alternatively, you can use a
file-based database component that??™s also included with the sample code. This component
retrieves the same data from an XML file, simulating the work of the full database component
without requiring a live instance of SQL Server.
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