In order to test and compile all of the examples in this book, you will need to install .NET 4.5 Framework, which is supported on all versions of Windows from Windows Vista and up which you can find at:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30653

In order to compile and test the Windows Store and ASP.NET MVC projects (Chapter 4, Creating a Windows Store App and Chapter 5, Mobile Web App respectively), you will need to install a version of Visual Studio 2012 (http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio). Additionally, the Windows Store project requires that you run Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 8.

The final project of the book in Chapter 6, Cross-platform Development is to create a Mac OS application using MonoMac (http://www.mono-project.com/MonoMac), and MonoDevelop (http://monodevelop.com). You must develop this on a Mac.