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:

1. Confirm you are a member of the "Administrators" group on the local machine.
2. Right-click the Visual Studio shortcut and select the "Run as administrator" option from the context menu.
3. Click Continue to the UAC prompt.
4. To ensure you have the latest updates, after running Visual Studio, choose Help > Check for Updates.

Operating Systems

• Windows 8
• Windows 10
• Windows 11
• Windows Server 2012
• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022

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

.NET Frameworks

• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 (or higher) is required for OCR.
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 (or higher) is required for Art, Comparison, Dicom, Evaluation, Office, Pdf, Presentation, Vector, Web and Wpf.
• Components not mentioned above require Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (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

Other Requirements

The following features require the specified version of Microsoft Visual C++ to be installed on the system. These packages are typically included with Microsoft Visual Studio.

• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 and Microsoft Visual C++ 2015
• CAD vector formats require Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2015
• Office formats (e.g., DOCX or XLSX) requires Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2013
• PDF and PS formats require Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 redistributable (Windows x64)