To develop solutions with APGen^™, a developer needs basic programming skills, basic Web development skills, and familiarity with VBScript^®, JScript^™, PerlScript, or Python.

ASP developers have all the skills necessary to use APGen.

System requirements for using APGen 2.1 are:

• Microsoft^® Windows NT^® 4.0 SP3 or later
     - or -
  Microsoft Windows^® 2000
     - or -
  Microsoft Windows XP
  
  
• 12 MB Hard Drive space
• 64 MB RAM
• Optional: Visual InterDev 6.0 (included in Visual Studio 6.0), Microsoft Script Debugger, or Visual Studio.NET

APGen has no other hardware or software requirements.  However, some of the examples included with APGen require:

• IIS 4.0 or newer
• WebGecko ASPCache 1.1 or newer
• MS Access ADO drivers (MDAC 2.1 or newer)
• Microsoft Outlook 98 or newer
• MSMQ
• MSXML from IE 4.0 or newer
• SQL Server 7.0 or newer

Windows 2000 includes IIS 5.0, IE 5.0 and MDAC 2.5.  Windows 2000 Server includes MSMQ.  If you are running Windows 2000 or Windows XP, you already have the components required for most of the examples.

The Adventure Works Equipment and MSMQ examples require WebGecko ASPCache 1.1 or later.  A free 30 day trial of ASPCache can be downloaded from http://www.webgecko.com/trial/.

The computer that runs APGen does not have to be a Web server.  APGen does not require a specific Web server, browser, or browser extension, because the output files are industry standard formats (HTML, XML, ASP, etc).  APGen can generate files that can be served from any Web server and platform, including UNIX, LINUX, Apache, and Java application servers.

For development purposes, we recommend that APGen be used with Visual InterDev 6.0 or Visual Studio.NET.  These are the preferred editors and debuggers for APG scripts.