Quote Originally Posted by NickThissen View Post
I think you misunderstood. You can get a free version of Visual Studio, either for VB.NET or for C#.NET (but not combined), and it's called either Visual Basic Express 2010 or Visual C# Express 2010.

Visual Studio is the non-free version and combines both VB and C# into a single IDE, along with some other more advanced features that the free Express versions don't have. But you most probably don't need any of those features.

So just download Visual Basic 2010 Express, for free, and you will be up to date.
Oh my god you guys are great . Express now runs smoothly on the machine, and I can't wait to crank out some code. No longer having to use manifest files to use XP+ style controls, and getting all those new features is just excellent. Why it's free is beyond me, but I'm not complaining

I'll convert the projects into VB2010 and try to implement the server_maintenance software using virtualisation on the DataGridView as suggested (call this solved for now).

So glad I joined this forum