Which version of Visual Studio 2005 to get?

[Anil Gupte]

I am trying to decide between buying Visual Studio 2005 Professional and
Standard versions. As far as I can tell, there is not a whole lot of
difference, but the price for Professional is almost three times.
Standard
Professional
User experience -> Simplified menu options and defaults
Full
XML Editor Support-> XML Only
Full XML/XSLT
Debugging-> Local
Local / remote
SQL server-> Express Edition
Developer Edition

Since I have a server with SQL on it, and I am not even sure what XSLT is,
it boils down to whether I want full menus and if I want remote Debugging.

Can anyone tell me what "remote debugging" is in plain English? Any other
thoughts and advice will be appreciated.
Thanx,

 

[Mattias Sjögren]

Can anyone tell me what "remote debugging" is in plain English?

The ability to debug a process running on another machine.


Mattias

 

[PvdG42]

I am trying to decide between buying Visual Studio 2005 Professional and
Standard versions. As far as I can tell, there is not a whole lot of
difference, but the price for Professional is almost three times.
Standard Professional
User experience -> Simplified menu options and defaults Full
XML Editor Support-> XML Only Full XML/XSLT
Debugging-> Local Local / remote
SQL server-> Express Edition Developer Edition

Since I have a server with SQL on it, and I am not even sure what XSLT is,
it boils down to whether I want full menus and if I want remote Debugging.

Can anyone tell me what "remote debugging" is in plain English? Any other
thoughts and advice will be appreciated.
Thanx,

One other difference, which may or may not be important to you:

Professional comes with Crystal Reports. Standard does not.

 

[Anil Gupte]

Thanx, that helped - I guess Standard is good enough for me.

One other thing. I understand that in 2005 I can create mixed programs -
i.e. part in VB and part in C++ or C#. Is this true?

Thanx,

 

[Guest]

One other thing. I understand that in 2005 I can create mixed programs -

i.e. part in VB and part in C++ or C#. Is this true?

A solution can have many different projects within it. The projects may be
a mixture of many languages. One project however may not contain multiple
development languages.

 

[Anil Gupte]

Thanx!