VB Pro Edition -vs- VB Learning Edition

[Evan]

Once upon a time.

A 'Young Man' went to bestbuy
looking to learn vb by buying
the program. Looking at the
two versions he picked the
learning edition, thinking
it would help him learn vb.

To cut the crap. This was me!
I dont understand, I buy this
VB thinking it going to have
thinks to help me and as time
goes on I cant do all the cool
stuff. What the heck?

But I finally did get VB Pro Ed.
and Im wondering what I can
do with this one that I cant do
with the other?

Well, you can use winsock....
and you have a lot more DataBase and code management tools....
and thats about it.

[alex_read]

All right, are we going to have another argument here?

Evan, if you search back, there have been at least 2 discussions on the pro's & cons of the learning edition, few points I can think of...

Not supported in learning edition:
* Ocx controls
* Activex controls
* Dll files

With these, you can load SOME of them if you get any sample project, but a lot of these can't be loaded & therefore you can't open 1/2 the samples on any sites (planetsourcecode or VB home page - or for that mattter the ones supplied with the learning edition on the MSDN CD)!
You can load some of these, but the only thing you can create is a excecutable file.

* IIS & internet pages you can't really create with this.
* Go up to the add ins menu & notice how many thousand's of add in's (including the api viewer) you can't load in the learning edition.
* Support for database issues (is it called visdata)? there's a little yellow icon on the toolbar that I saw once for this.


This is for starters....but, with updates & 3rd party software, I can do all the above (nearly) with the learning edition & can laugh at everyone who spent $300 more on buying the pro edition :p :p :p AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!

[alex_read]

Oooh, yeah, 1 more (and most important) thing, the Professional Edition has a much better logo / splash screen! :D

[Edited by alex_read on 09-22-2000 at 09:19 AM]

Enterprise is the best!!
the splash screen is the best too :D

[alex_read]

Some aliens came into my house when I was out one day and downloaded the Enterprise edition on my machine (without my knowledge) from a warez site. Of course I have got rid of it now & have not seen the culprits since, but I have seen this and totally agree this one can't be beaten!

Hey, that happened to me too,
but instead of downloading it, the alians bought it for me :D