VB .NET version for creating Windows Services

[Bob]

Hello,


I am trying to find out which version of VB .NET we need to buy in
order to create Windows (NT) Service as shown in this helpful article


http://www.developerfusion.com/show/3441/1


We emailed Microsoft and got back a very ambiguous return email which
suggested we purchase Visual Studio 2003 Professional but also seemed
to say in a seperate attached document that it could be done in
standard VB .NET - leaving me none the wiser.


I'm hoping to only purchase standard VB .NET as we don't really have
much use for the other languages that come in the studio edition.
Thanks,


Bob.

 

[JohnFol]

std is absolutely fine

 

[JohnFol]

I might be wrong here. I just had a look at the Help screens and it says

"Note The Windows Service template and associated functionality is not
available in the Standard Edition of Visual Basic and Visual C# .NET. For
more information, see Visual Basic Standard Edition Features or Visual C#
Standard Edition Features."

 

[Bob]

Thanks, I've decided the only way to tell for certain to find someone
with standard VB .NET and try create a service using it. It certainly
seems from all the offical Micrsoft documentation that you need studio
but I keep hearing from different place that you may only need standard
- it's all very strange.

Thanks for your help!

and if anyone has standard VB .NET out there please have a look to see
if you can created a Windows Service and let me know. Thanks!!!

Cheers,

Bob