Can someone tell me if this is true, who has Vb.net Standard Edition?

[VBproGGer]

I was at amazon.com, checking out the price for VB.net Standard edition, and I was looking at the user reviews. One person had this to say:

Don't waste your money on this one, March 12, 2002
Reviewer: thekeegans from CT, USA
I made the unfortunate mistake of purchasing the "Standard" version of VB.NET. I would have rated this product a zero if it was available. They should have called this VB.NET Trial, not Standard. It is very misleading as to what you can do with it.

If you want to do anything more than creating simple executables or simple ASP.NET pages, then go for the VB.NET Professional Upgrade. ..., it's only ...more than the Standard version, and you get most of the cool tools you would expect in a "Standard" version.

With VB.NET Standard, you cannot upgrade VB6 code, you cannot make libraries (DLL) or controls (OCX), there's no database designer, no deployment project designer, etc.

So if you really want to do anything fun/useful with VB.NET, spend the extra couple of dollars, get the professional upgrade, .... I wish I had.

Also, is VB.net Pro even sold separately? I can only seem to find VB.net Standard sold separately, and I don't have $1000 to buy Visual.net Studio Pro. Thanks for any feedback!

Ryan

[hellswraith]

The upgrade to VS.Net Professional is $549 if you have VB 6 already. Plus you can get a 300 dollar rebate right now, bringing down that total to $249.

Here is the rebate info from MS site...

Visual Studio .NET Professional product upgrade includes a $300 US* in-box rebate for licensed users of:
Visual Studio 6.0 Professional Edition or Enterprise Edition
Visual Basic 6.0, Professional Edition or Enterprise Edition
Visual C++ 6.0, Professional Edition or Enterprise Edition
Visual InterDev 6.0 Professional Edition
Visual J++ 6.0 Professional Edition
Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition


So $249 is no where near $1000 dollars. You only have to pay that much if your wanting the NON upgrade version.

[Jethro]

Whoa was just about to fork out the bucks for vb.net standard, the guys claimed there wasn't a vb.net Professional version. Can you actually score vb.net Professional version, or do you have to arse around with vb6. Not a big fan of MS upgrade versions, always seem to be shonky.....

Will be running on Win 2k Workstation.....whatever they call that now adays.

[VBproGGer]

See, that's the problem hellswraith, I don't have VB6, and I really just want to know if what that guy said was true. Why the hell couldn't microsoft make a pro version of VB.net sold alone

[hellswraith]

I am not that sure if they are making a pro version of the individual tools or not, sorry I can't help you on that.

Jethro,

Not a big fan of MS upgrade versions, always seem to be shonky.....

The MS upgrades are still the whole program, they just have extra code to upgrade existing apps, and/or to check that you have the existing app. You don't have to perform the upgrade, just do a fresh install and it will ask you to show where the qualifing product is (since it isn't on your hard drive), you slip in your old CD so it can verify you have it, and your done, you continue installing. If you install this way, it is the same as if you bought the full version with the exception of the CD Check. You can do this with all their upgrade products, and it works quite well. I can't stand using their upgrade products overtop of old ones though, always start fresh.

[Jethro]

Didn't know that. Any upgardes have installed over existing apps, with problems galore....might try that approach out....

VBproGGER downunder they claimed a full Prof Version of vb.net, haven't seen or heard of it yet......guess have to use HW's approach.....


Check the qualify products, sometimes can be pretty lame three versions back sort of thing, which should be cheap to go secondhand....