C# Standard Vs Professional

[Guest]

Does anyone know what features are missing from the standard edition of C# (retails for $109) vs the professional edition (which as far as I know is only available by purchasing visual studio, and we all know how much that costs!)?

Thanks
-JW

 

[Chris Gallucci]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/howtobuy/choosing.aspx

ChrisG

 

[Mark Broadbent]

Hi JW if you dont want expense, I used to use a very good IDE call
SharpDevelop (google for it). It is open source and very good. (Ive now
subscribed to MSDN though cos Vis Studio is probably the best around.

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Does anyone know what features are missing from the standard edition of C#

(retails for $109) vs the professional edition (which as far as I know is
only available by purchasing visual studio, and we all know how much that
costs!)?

 

[Niki Estner]

The most important difference is that you cannot create class library
(the-file-type-formerly-known-as-DLL) projects.
You can only cerate standalone executables, or use the command-line compiler
to create libraries.

Niki

 

[C# Learner]

The most important difference is that you cannot create class library
(the-file-type-formerly-known-as-DLL) projects.
You can only cerate standalone executables, or use the command-line compiler
to create libraries.

That's not true. I use VC# Standard 2003 and can create class library
projects with it.

 

[Bonj]

It's *horrible*.

Hi JW if you dont want expense, I used to use a very good IDE call
SharpDevelop (google for it). It is open source and very good. (Ive now
subscribed to MSDN though cos Vis Studio is probably the best around.

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Mark Broadbent
mcdba , mcse+i
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C#
(retails for $109) vs the professional edition (which as far as I know is
only available by purchasing visual studio, and we all know how much that
costs!)?

 

[C# Learner]

It's *horrible*.

Care to explain why you think this?

Could you also take a look at this please -
http://www.dickalba.demon.co.uk/usenet/guide/faq_topp.html

Thanks

 

[Mark Broadbent]

well for 0 bucks it is very good in my opinion. Tried borlands effort -not
impessed. Obviously studio 2003 is the DADDY but it costs money.

What do you think is the best open source IDE?

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[Jan Roelof de Pijper]

It's *horrible*.

Thank you for a very useful and constructive contribution. In my
opinion, it is the single most stupendous IDE I have ever seen.

Jan Roelof

 

[C# Learner]

Thank you for a very useful and constructive contribution. In my
opinion, it is the single most stupendous IDE I have ever seen.

Stupendous as in /large/, or as in /marvellous/?

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

well for 0 bucks it is very good in my opinion. Tried borlands effort -not
impessed. Obviously studio 2003 is the DADDY but it costs money.

What do you think is the best open source IDE?

If you're not limiting yourself to C#, Eclipse is the nicest one I've
used, personally...

 

[Mark Broadbent]

ya i was talkin bout C# IDE but I'll try out eclipse out of interest.
Thanks.

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[Mark Broadbent]

you little tinker! You still havent given me an alternative

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[C# Learner]

you little tinker! You still havent given me an alternative

Oh, I thought you were asking Bonj - sorry.

The best I've tried is MS's IDE.

Borland's was pretty nice, but it kept crashing my application in debug
mode for no apparent reason.

I liked SharpDevelop too, but it didn't have integrated debugging last
time I tried it. It has a nice editor, though, with syntax highlighting
for several different elements.

 

[Mark Broadbent]

yeah your spot on about all of those. 2003 is certainly the best (read
comprehensive). Found SharpDevelop great for simple quick development e.g.
console apps, simple winforms (plus it costs nowt)

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