Technical Requirements

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What umbraco is, what you need, how to get started.

Contents

• What IS umbraco?
• Technical Requirements
• Skills Requirements
• Getting Started
• Getting Help
• umbraco for Teams

Technical Requirements

For local development and production hosting:

• A Windows 2000+ computer with an installed web server (either IIS, or other that supports ASP.Net)
• Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) or Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (MSDE) or SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
• ASP.Net 1.1 (to run umbraco v.2.x) or ASP.Net 2.0 (to run umbraco v.3.x) installed.
• Internet Explorer web browser to interact with the CMS back-end (websites created are viewable on any browser your HTML code supports)

For getting your hands dirty in the source code:

In addition to the above...

• Generally you will need Visual Studio or another way to view/edit the .aspx and .cs files

*NOTE* Tons of customizations are available without changing the source code, or even programming your own web controls!