Question on VB Express 2005?

[mapperkids]

Hi,

Since the VB Express 2005 is free to download and can I use to develop an application for company use (where I'm working on).

By Compare with VB6, does it slow down a lot and need extra .NEt framework and CLR to run on the clinet side?

We are planning to develop a VB front end database application that connect to the SQL 2005 server db.

Is that VB Express is the way to go compare with VB6?

Thanks for any comments.

[phenom]

Hi mapperkids,

Yes go for VB.net 2005...

i think this answer your question: Answer

Hope this helps...

Regards,

[mapperkids]

Hi,

Just find out the Express edition only support database locally, so I guess I need to get at least the standard edition in order to connect to the SQL server 2005 remotely.

Hi mapperkids,

Yes go for VB.net 2005...

i think this answer your question: Answer

Hope this helps...

Regards,

[stanav]

Hi,

Just find out the Express edition only support database locally, so I guess I need to get at least the standard edition in order to connect to the SQL server 2005 remotely.

It won't support remote DB in db explorer, but it works just fine if you do it by code.

[WayneSpangler]

Check this from MS:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914277/en-us

[techgnome]

1) YEs, VBE2005 is free
2) Yes you can use it to develop apps of any kind, there's no limitation
3) You do not need anything extra, just the .NET Frameweork 2.0
4) It is only the data explorer that is limited to local database connections. But if you code all the connections by hand (using ADO.NET) then there's no limit on what you can connect to.

-tg