System Requirements

NOTE: Microsoft recommends running Visual Studio with administrator privileges under Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8. To properly use the ImageGear Samples, please run Visual Studio with elevated permissions. To run Visual Studio with elevated administrator permissions, first confirm you are a member of the "Administrators" group on the local machine. Then right-click the Visual Studio shortcut and select the "Run as administrator" option from the context menu. Click ‘Continue’ to the UAC prompt. To ensure you have the latest updates, after running Visual Studio, choose ‘Check for Updates’ from the Help Menu.

NOTE: The ImageGear for .NET documentation provides information for all platforms and .NET framework versions. However, not all features are available for all ImageGear for .NET versions. Please refer to the table on the Welcome page of these Release Notes for information about which ImageGear for .NET Namespaces are available for which versions (Windows 32-bit platforms and Windows 64-bit platforms).

Supported Operating Systems

• Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 (not supported for ASP.NET or WPF)

• Windows Server 2003 32-bit, Service Pack 1

• Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition  

• Windows XP 32-bit,  Service Pack 2

• Windows XP Professional x64 Edition 

• Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit Editions

• Windows Server 2008 32-bit and 64-bit Editions

• Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit Editions

Supported .NET Frameworks

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.x, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0.

• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 is required for ASP.NET.

• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 is required for:

  • Vector formats

  • Office formats

  • DICOM format

  • PDF

  • ART

  • Evaluation

  • Presentation

  • Formatted Output feature of the ImageGear Recognition API

  • Windows Forms

  • WPF

Components not mentioned above require Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (or higher).

Supported Web Servers and Browsers

ASP.NET functionality is supported on IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0 with the following browsers: 

• Windows Internet Explorer 7.0 or 8.0

• Firefox 3.0, 3.5, or 3.6

• Safari 4.0

• Chrome 4.0

Disk Space

The Installation program will tell you how much disk space you need in order to load ImageGear. The disk space used will vary, depending upon the options you select during installation.