Witch VS.NET edition

[KaaCee]

Hi,

I need to decide what Visual Studio 2005 edition to buy. Standard or professional.

I have some 3rd party (Visual C++) code (to retreive settings from an external device) from witch i need to create a DLL that i will be using in a vb application.

Can this be done using the standard editon?

[jmcilhinney]

Standard supports all the same languages as Professional.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/pr...e/default.aspx

[KaaCee]

Yes, i know but the reason i ask is because i own a copy of VB2003 (not VS) standard and with this i can't create an OCX or a DLL

Is it possible to crate a DLL with visual studio 2005 standard?

[RobDog888]

What version of VB.NET 2003 do you have?

[KaaCee]

Visual basic 2003 standard.

In the info screen it says the following

Microsoft Development Environment 2003 version 7.1.3088

[RobDog888]

Do you have a "WindowsControlLibrary" project template?

[KaaCee]

No, i have the following templates :

Windows application
ASP.NET web application
ASP.NET web service
ASP.NET mobile web application
Console application

Setup project

Database project

Blank solution

[jmcilhinney]

VB 2005 Express can create library projects so VS 2005 Standard will be able to. As far as I'm aware no version of VS.NET ever has been able to create OCXs because they are a COM thing.

[KaaCee]

I also have a copy of Visual studio 6 enterprise edition.

If you started a new project there i could select ActiveX dll and ActiveX control

If an activeX control project was build, it would become an OCX
If an ActiveX dll project was built, it would become a DLL

[jmcilhinney]

ActiveX is COM. .NET is .NET. .NET doesn't do COM. All .NET projects are compiled into assemblies, which are .NET executables.