System Requirement for Iron Speed Designer Software

Iron Speed Designer can be installed on any of the operating systems below.  The installed machine must have the Microsoft .NET Framework.  If you need to modify the code generated by Iron Speed Designer, you will also require appropriate code and web page editing tools, such as Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, and the .NET SDK (which comes with Visual Studio .NET).

Component

Minimum Requirement

Server operating system

Windows 2003 Server
Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 1 or later
Windows XP Home, Service Pack 1 or later (local development machine only)

Note: Iron Speed Designer will not run on 64 bit versions of Microsoft Windows XP.

Web server

Microsoft IIS 5.0 or later.

Microsoft ASP.NET Development Server, if running under .NET Framework 2.0 or 3.0 (included in Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005)
(Optional, runs on local development machine only.)

.NET Framework

.NET Framework 3.5
.NET Framework 3.0
.NET Framework 2.0

Iron Speed Designer will not run under:
.NET Framework 1.1
.NET Framework 1.0

You can download the .NET Framework from:

msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/default.aspx

Note:  Iron Speed Designer does not support the .NET Compact Framework.

.NET SDK

If you intend to modify the code generated by Iron Speed Designer.

Database

(For internal use only.)

MDAC

The default MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components) driver installed with earlier versions of Microsoft Windows is not sufficient to run Iron Speed Designer.  Iron Speed Designer requires MDAC Version 2.6 or later.  This driver is automatically updated if you have Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or MSDE 2000 installed on your machine with the latest service packs.

In the event you do not have the latest version of the driver, you can download Version 2.7 of this driver from:

http://www.microsoft.com/data/

See How to Check Your MDAC Version.

Integrated Development Environment

Optional, if you intend to modify or extend the generated source code.

Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005 Standard Edition
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005 Professional Edition
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers

Notes:

Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005 supports only the .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0.

These IDE’s are not supported:
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005 Express Edition
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition
Microsoft Visual Studio 2003

System speed

Iron Speed Designer requires a minimum of 600 MHz with 1 GHz recommended.

System memory

Iron Speed Designer requires a minimum of 512 MB of memory and 1 GB is recommended.  There are additional requirements if the development machine also has a database (e.g., Microsoft SQL Server) and an IDE (e.g., Microsoft Visual Studio .NET) installed.

System disk space

Approximately 100 MB of disk space is required.

We recommend installing Iron Speed Designer on the desktop machine of each individual developer.  (Please note that each developer will require a separate license to use Iron Speed Designer).

To modify the source code generated by Iron Speed Designer, you must be able to access the hard drive where the generated code is stored.

Installing Multiple Versions of Iron Speed Designer

You can install multiple versions of Iron Speed Designer on your system.  They will not conflict with each other as long as they are installed in separate folders.

See Also

System Requirements

System Requirement for Iron Speed Designer Software

Generated Application System Requirements

Application User System Requirements

Running on Microsoft .NET

.NET Framework 3.0 Compatibility for Iron Speed Designer

Activating and Deactivating Iron Speed Designer

Offline Activation of Iron Speed Designer

Downloading MSDE

How to Check Your MDAC Version

Proxy Server Configuration

Running Iron Speed Designer Remotely