Here is what you'll need to develop plugins using the ClearCanvas Framework:
| • | Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 (Standard Edition or better) or Visual C# Express 2005 or 2008¹ (Visual C# Express is available as a free download from Microsoft). |
A few notes:
| • | Note that Visual Studio 2002 and 2003 will not work due to the .NET Framework version (1.0 and 1.1) included in those releases. |
| • | If you are building from the source code, you should know that the solution and project files are all in Visual Studio 2008 format. |
| • | Be sure to make use of the ClearCanvas Framework Reference included in the SDK. |
¹ Theoretically, Visual Basic .NET and any of the other supported .NET languages can be used to develop plugins, but the SDK wizards and templates currently only work in C#. The ClearCanvas forums are always there if you need any assistance.
