Differences between VS.NET and VB.NET standard

[Guest]

I currently have VS.NET Pro at work and I am looking to buy VB.NET Standard for personal home use. After looking at the documentation at MSDN, I'm still not sure what are the things missing in VB.NET standard that are available in VS.NET Pro.

I know that the following things are missing
- Cannot create DLLs in VB.NET Standard (althought, thanks to the newsgroup community, I've seen a macro solution for this
- No server tools (no server explorer, therefore no embedded IS management or SQL server management
- No Crystal Reports editor (cannot create new reports; can only use the CR viewer

My questions are the following: Does VB.NET standard..
- ...can create setup programs (or is there an equivalent way of doing this...I believe XCOPY deployment would work)
- ...has all the default toolbox controls that VS.NET has

Thanks in advance for your help

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

My questions are the following: Does VB.NET standard...
- ...can create setup programs (or is there an equivalent way of doing this...I believe XCOPY deployment would work).

Yes, a setup template is included.

- ...has all the default toolbox controls that VS.NET has?

Yes, the controls are part of the framework and the framework is the
same.

 

[Cor]

Hi JJ,

This came today in this newsgroup (or in the adonet group I do not know
anymore)

http://ailab2.et.ntust.edu.tw/~badboy/odb/

Cor