Express edition question ???

[Guest]

Dear all,

What is the idea of Microsoft behing having release this express edition for
Visual Studio and SQL server ?

Where I I get info aour real limitation compare to full version ?

thnaks for your comments
regards
serge

 

[Teemu Keiski]

Hi,

idea is probably to lower the (cost) curve to start developing with MS
technologies plus make .NET and SQL known.

VS2005 comparison
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/compare/default.aspx

SQl2005 comparison
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/features/compare-features.mspx

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Serge,

Basicly it is a student learn product as told by the introducion.

They want to make the entree to their developers tools for those (and others
who want to learn it) as low as possible.

This is of course not without benefits for Microsoft.

As long as there are enough application running on the Microsoft platforms,
will that stay the leading platform.

As far as I know of course.

Cor

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

serge,

Maybe was you more asking for something as this.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b4z62wxz(en-US,VS.80).aspx

You can browse back inside the page to get information about more products

Cor

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the info.

I read also that the plan was to approach students or dummies in .NEt
programing. But what I was afraid of for instance is that as it is free, some
people or even companies ask you to make a developement under that express
version (it save company licence price) and then you start to build they
basic application and after a while they will request some extended feature
that will not belonging to express but request for the move to enterprise
verison. Then either the company forget the improvement has they do not want
to pay extra money, or you might be in trouble to approach theire request if
you start to implemnt sofiticated feature.

At that time a clear idea of the limitation of express is require in order
to warm them before startzing to develop things.

regards
serge

 

[Christopher Reed]

For the most part, if you are doing simple development projects, then the
Express products will handled them nicely. The individual Express products
are more or less the individual modules contained in VS 2005. What you
don't have in the Express products are all the bells and whistles that come
with VS 2005 Professional (Crystal Reports for .NET, full deployment
functionality, source control) and Visual Studio Team System (team
development features like code coverage and unit testing). Overall, though,
the Express products can produce the same base applications and libraries
that can be produced in VS 2005.

As for approaching your decision regarding which version to use, yes, if you
have a large enterprise development structure in terms of either a large
number of developers or a large amount of development projects, then the
full Visual Studio products are maybe what you need. Look here for a
comparison of the various VS 2005 editions:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/compare/default.aspx