Hi there,
If you just want to develop with VB.NET, just buy VB.NET. Ignore all of the
information stating that you should buy VS.NET if you are a professional,
because that is absolute boll*cks.
*VS.NET contains the other Microsoft .NET languages, which have no
relevance to VB.NET
*VS.NET contains the VB6 upgrade wizard if you are planning on upgrading
VB6 code to VB.NET, this *may* come in handy
*VS.NET contains some server components which are useful if you plan on
developing ASP.NET applications on a server other than localhost. Such as
another computer in you LAN.
*VS.NET contains the crystal repots objects, not available in the
componentized versions alone.
You can use VB.NET with Windows XP Home edition but you cannot develop
ASP.NET applications on localhost as it does not have IIS installed, but you
can develop from XP Home onto an XP Pro system for example, or any other
Windows OS that has IIS installed.
Nope, they are idential, you don't get all the templates though, that is one
downside. Initially it will look like you can't develop things such as
Windows Services and Class Libraries, but in fact you can, you need to
change the project files manually with notepad to do so. Or, get the
templates!
I am set firm on these beliefes as I had the 2nd beta of VS.NET and didn't
use anything other than VB.NET anyway. I have VB.NET now and don't need
anything else, hence an upgrade would be totally pointless for me unless I
wanted to learn C#, or one of the other languages whilst retaining the IDE.
Ask yourself that main question, do you only want to use VB? If so just buy
VB, unless you want all of the other stuff that comes with VS.NET, such as
the ones mentioned above.
Nick.
This link is the a web page that contains all of the other templates for
VB.NET, the ones that are missing. It just shows that it is possible to do
without ANY errors in the slightest, but this is only for version 2002 as
that is all I have at the moment until I upgrade to 2003.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/nickpatemanpwp/soft-vbtemp.htm
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