To follow the recipes in this book, you will need a copy of Visual Studio 2015. Some of the features covered in the recipes may only be available in specific editions of Visual Studio. Thanks to Microsoft's new product lineup, most of the recipes are compatible with the freely available Visual Studio Community. It will be noted if a given recipe has additional requirements.

If you wish to follow one of these recipes, and you do not have the right edition, trial versions for premium versions can be downloaded from the Microsoft website, which enables you to check whether a particular feature will benefit your project.

For any of the recipes that deal with Universal Windows Platform (UWP) applications, you will need to use Windows 10 as your operating system.