This section provides information about the system requirements for ImageGear .NET in the following sub-sections:

Microsoft recommends running Visual Studio with administrator privileges. To properly use the ImageGear Samples, please run Visual Studio with elevated permissions. To run Visual Studio with elevated administrator permissions:

Confirm you are a member of the "Administrators" group on the local machine.
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 Help > Check for Updates.

Operating Systems

Windows 7
Windows 8
Windows 10
Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2012

We do not recommend that you compile using AnyCPU, as some resources are platform-specific.

.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).

Web Servers and Browsers

ASP.NET functionality is supported on IIS 6.0 - IIS 10.0 with the following browsers:

Windows Internet Explorer 9.0, 10.0, and 11.0 (in compatibility mode)
Firefox
Chrome
Safari