Visual Basic Concepts

System Requirements for Visual Basic Applications

The following hardware and software is required for Visual Basic applications:

• Pentium^® 90MHz or higher microprocessor.
  
  
• VGA 640x480 or higher-resolution screen supported by Microsoft Windows.
  
  
• Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 or later, or Microsoft Windows 95 or later.
  
  
• 24 MB RAM for Windows 95/98, 32 MB for Windows NT.
  
  
• Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.01 or later (version 4.01 Service Pack 1 or later for DHTML application developers, and 4.x for end-users of these applications).
  
  
• Disk space requirements:
  • Standard Edition: typical installation 48 MB, full installation 80 MB.
    
    
  • Professional Edition: typical installation 48 MB, full installation 80 MB.
    
    
  • Enterprise Edition: typical installation 128 MB, full installation 147 MB.
    
    
  • Additional components (if required): MSDN (for documentation): 67 MB, Internet Explorer 4.x: approximately 66 MB.
• CD-ROM (no MS-DOS support assumed).