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Technically speaking MIIS does not require Visual Studio at all, but it is a very good development tool choice for developing MIIS 2003 rules extensions. The minimum requirements to compile rules extensions are the .NET compilers available for free in the .NET Framework SDK at http://msdn.microsoft.com.
