What you need for this book

To work through the sample apps in this book, you will need a reasonably good laptop or desktop computer that meets these minimum hardware/OS/.NET requirements:

• Internet access with a sufficiently fast download speed.
• 2.2 GHz or higher.
• Intel Pentium, Intel Core Duo, or Xeon Processor.
• 1.5 GB of available disk space.
• 2 GB or higher of RAM. Even more may be required for the chapter on 3D.
• A graphics card with 64 MB of RAM, 256 MB of RAM is recommend. NVIDIA, ATI, and Intel chipsets are supported.
• Windows 8.1 Basic, Professional and Enterprise, Windows 7 Ultimate, Enterprise, Professional or Home Premium, Windows 7 SP1 Ultimate, Enterprise, and Professional or Home Edition.
• .NET 4.5.2, 4.5.1 or 4.5. The sample apps are using .NET 4.5.
• Visual Studio 2013 (all editions). You can also use Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop, Visual Studio 2012 with Update 3 (all editions), and Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop and Update 3. Chapter 1, Introduction to ArcGIS Runtime, will show you how to download a free copy of Visual Studio 2013. It's also possible to use Visual Studio 2015, but ArcGIS Runtime does not currently have a project template for that version.