Prepare the UDI Development Environment Software Prerequisites

The UDI development environment has the following software prerequisites:

· Any Windows operating system that Visual Studio 2010 supports (Windows 7 or Windows Server® 2008 R2 is recommended.)

You will need a Windows operating system that supports the processor architecture for which you want to develop. You can perform 32-bit and 64-bit UDI development using a 64-bit operating system. You only do 32-bit UDI development on 32-bit operating systems. For this reason, you should use a 64-bit operating system.

Note Intel Itanium versions (IA-64) of Windows operating system are not supported for UDI development environments.

For more information about the operating systems that Visual Studio 2010 supports, see the system requirements for each edition at Visual Studio 2010 Products.

· Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.0 (required by Visual Studio 2010)

· C++ language (the language used in extending UDI Wizard pages)

· Other languages that WPF supports, such as C#, Visual Basic .NET, or C++/Common Language Infrastructure, which are used to extend UDI Wizard Designer wizard page editors

Note The sample source code for the UDI Wizard Designer wizard page editors is written in C#. Install the C# language if you want to use the sample source code.