General 2003 VB.Net questions

[indydavid32]

Hello everyone,

I have a full blown version of .net 2002. If I buy an upgrade for 2003 .Net and put this on a network, can multiple people use this at the same time?

One more thing, if I just had the regular version of just 2003 VB .Net would I be able to create asp pages?

What all do you loose, besides the other languages, when not buying the full blown Visual Studio package?

Thanks for all your input.

[BukHix]

The standard version of VB does ASP.Net. I have been using it for that purpose for about 2 months now. Although I hate the whole code behind thing so I am using WebMatrix for much of my ASP.Net stuff.


I have a little experience with the differences (not in any way definitive experience but …) Here is what I know to be missing:

There are no Database Wizards for the full version of SQL Server. It will only connect to Access or the MSDE. However you can manually make the connections to SQL Server as well as any other compliant database very easily.

ASP Code Behinds do not auto-compile. If you want to compile your stuff you will need to get a plug in or do it yourself. Actually you may have to do some compiling in Windows forms also but it is done pretty easily from the command prompt.

There is no built in reporting so you will need to purchase a third party reporting tool or MS's new SQL Server Reporting thingy, which may be free to you if you have a licensed version of SQL Server.

I am sure there are many more but those are some of the things that I have run into. So far I have been able to overcome all the limitations by using the above mentioned workarounds.

Here is a comparison of the two versions by MS it you haven't seen it yet.

[salvelinus]

I don't know if multiple people on a network could use it at the same time, but it's probably a license violation to do so.