Academic license

[Andrew]

Hello, I am thinking of buying VisualBasic.net (academic license) and
wondered if someone could tell me what the difference is between this
version and the standard version. Are there a lot more functions in the
standard edition? Do I need to be a student at a college or University?

Hope someone cane help

 

[jg]

I believe you must be a member of the faculty or a student. I heard Academic
version tend has limitation in terms of license duration and limit who may
use it. Probably not transferable Look at the license term at the back of
package

sounds like your are serious user.
If you are , you should get the professional version. if you are part of
some consulting firm or Microsoft partner, you can get employee evaluation
discount.

on the other hand if you just want to play and see what its all about,
download a trial version or the express version. Yes that is somewhat
limited in terms of GUI template but then people seems to have work around
that.

This way you can have a good feel for the product before committing to the
full product with your money.

 

[Stanav]

I'm not sure about VB.Net, but I've used the academic version of VC++ while
in school and it had all the features of a 'regular' version except it
didn't allow deployment at the end (thus the term "academic" --> one can use
it for learning but can not use it to write a sellable application).

Stanav.