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fred - 13 Jan 2004 15:15 GMT

I came across this link on the MS site as a refrence for the hardware
requirements for .NET Enterprise Architect. Are MS Smoking Something, I have
been developing in .Net for a while and I honestly cant see how such
under-specked hardware can be used. Anyone know where I can get a REAL WORLD
refrence for the .NET enviroment ?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/html/v
xorivisualstudionetsystemrequirements.asp

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Derek Slager - 13 Jan 2004 18:40 GMT

> I came across this link on the MS site as a refrence for the hardware
> requirements for .NET Enterprise Architect. Are MS Smoking Something, I
> have been developing in .Net for a while and I honestly cant see how
> such under-specked hardware can be used. Anyone know where I can get a
> REAL WORLD refrence for the .NET enviroment ?
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/html/v
xorivisualstudionetsystemrequirements.asp

That seems pretty reasonable for using the framework directly with
console-based tools and a lightweight editor, but it's definitely far too
light for Visual Studio. I evaluated VS.NET on 4 times that hardware and
it was quite sluggish. Of course, they do advertise them as 'minimum'
requirements ...

-Derek

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Michael Giagnocavo [MVP] - 14 Jan 2004 15:37 GMT

Well, it does work. The main problem I see is RAM. I ran VS.NET on a P2
350MHz machine, but with 384MB of RAM, and it ran ok (compiling was a tad
slower than I would like). Also, they aren't taking into account things
like IIS, SQL Server, and so on.

I'd increase their recommendations for RAM, but they make a footnote about
RAM (you need more). Seems like 256 would be a "usable" minimum if you
aren't running anything else. I wouldn't want a machine with less than
512MB (that's my minimum for any developer). I run with 1.5GB, and
everything flies :).

-mike
MVP

> I came across this link on the MS site as a refrence for the hardware
> requirements for .NET Enterprise Architect. Are MS Smoking Something, I have
> been developing in .Net for a while and I honestly cant see how such
> under-specked hardware can be used. Anyone know where I can get a REAL WORLD
> refrence for the .NET enviroment ?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/html/v
xorivisualstudionetsystemrequirements.asp

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