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Okay im looking to buy vb6 in england, but i havent been able to find where to buy it or how much, and if you can get disconuts for being a student, can anyone help me with this, as i am still using vb5 learning edition :o( Also can someone please explain what the different verions of vb6 are, and what makes them different,
Thanx
Cease
If you are a student, you can get the Academic Edition, which is the same as the Professional Edition for a cheaper price.
right okay thanx, what sort of prices are we looking at here?
Thanx
Cease
Sorry. I don't know the British Exchange Rate. In Canada, the Prof Edition is around $650.
well that is gonna do some damage to my bank account, okay right thanx a lot :o)
Cease
I just checked on an Exchange Rate website and the price is 291.50 Pounds.
You should be able to get the Academic Edition of VB6 Professional for around $100 U.S. If you have a student ID (or for that matter, if you are a teacher), you can get it. Check out this site:
http://www.r-tech.com
$100 USD is 61.14 pounds.
Let me say one thing. Prices in England are higher than anywhere else in the world for stuff like software, and if like me, you are young (under 18), it is a bugger getting hold of the (proper) tools you need to get into programming...
In England last august, I got VB Learning Edition 6.0 for £79.99 from PC World (very expensive for me). The professional editions of software (VB, C++, or visual studio) have an average price of about £399 to £450 in England. Enterprise editions in England cost in excess of around £1200 +.
Online stores often offer discounts, but if you are in education, I would strongly recommend you getting the student license for the professional edition. It will still set you back a lot though, probably about £120 to £140 for professional edition of Visual Studio on Student licence. This is still to expensive for me... So i took the pleasure of asking a mate to let me borrow his dad's CDs for visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise Edition =)
I know this is illegal etc, but I am not making any money from the software at all, I am just using it to learn programming with...
For more information on the student licence in the UK, visit the following section of the microsoft UK site. http://www.microsoft.com/uk/education/studentlicence/ You may find it of interest. Anyway, I hope I've helped you :) :) :)
Laterz
REM
come to my place and see,,,i bought VB6 prof. edition with MSDN and other stuff,,all for 20$,,thats it,,
highly suspicious!
Don't suppose you have a burner set up there too?
:D
I live in England - I bought VB4 (way back then) from Simply Computers - http://www.simply.co.uk, when I came to upgrade to VB5 I went to a local computer show and managed to pick it up for £50. It didn't have a manual but other than that it was a full original version.
Have a look at Simply - I've just searched for VB6 and they do VB6.01 Pro Educational edition (their ref SE1032) for £75 including VAT and delivery. (I'd ring them first and confirm that it is the full professional version and not some cut-down rubbish!)
Have fun.
Also - to see what each edition (Learning, Pro, Enterprise) involves go here...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/pro...et/feature.asp
thanx a lot people, all that info REALLY helped :o)
Thanx
Cease
this is what I did:
Last year i bought the Learning edition for £80, then a few weeks ago I ordered the Professional upgrade for £192.50.
i ordered it from Simply Computers, (simply.com), and they delivered free in under 4 days.
From my experience, PC world only stock the learning edition. I would recommend Simply for ordering over the net.
Mih_Flyer
Did you buy it from some Retial Store or from a sale off someplace else?
If anyone is interested, you can go to http://www.ebay.com and to see if you can get a really good price on Visual Basic.
For those of you that don't know what it is, it's a place where people buy and sell items by bidding on them. (auctions)