irasmith

Thank you for your input as well and I will make note of what you shared in the posting. I am just in the general stages of looking at doing some things and so my questions have been of a general nature just to find out if I could potentially do the types of things I wanted to. I have put my order in for VB.NET Standard and a book to help guide me through and begin learning. It is good to know that there is the possibility that I can do what I had asked about. When I get to that point of attempting it, should things not go well, I'll make additional posts to see what can be done. Thanks for your input, Ira

Thank you for the reply and that is great news to hear. I really appreciate the input on these early questions I have had. Ira

Just another question I have as I continue to plan out how to approach going about using VB.NET for work. Can the VB6 development environment and the VB.NET development environment be installed and exist on the same machine? Point of my question is in relation to VB6 code/applications that I may be asked to migrate to VB.NET. Thanks, Ira

Thanks very much for the input. I am just getting started in VB.NET, just ordered a moment ago the standard VB.NET and a book to get me going. I am looking forward to this venture. I have looked through a lot of the postings here and feel very fortunate to have found my way to this board as it seems there are a lot of good folks hanging around it. I am sure I will be posting more once my software and book arrive. I realize the standard isn't necessarily the best for business development, but I wanted to start with 'baby steps' to learn and grow from. Ira

Well, even though I'm a newcomer to this board and subject matter I'll add my two cents worth. I will be ordering sometime today Beginning VB.NET as well as the standard VB.NET software. From what I can tell of the book writeup in the link, it would seem to be the way to go since it is geared for newcomers to VB.NET and you can use the standard version of VB.NET to work through the book. Hope this helps. Ira

Is the .NET Framework runtime enabled by default on say a Win2k Terminal Server or does it have to be actived manually? To go along with that question, is the .NET Framework runtime bundled with Win2k terminal server or WinXP terminal server or does it have to be downloaded separately? Thanks, Ira

I do thank you for the information regarding the data connection. It is good to know that I still do have an option and for purposes of learning I don't mind writing the code rather than using a feature of the IDE that is in the professional and up versions. Yes, thank you very much for pointing that out as it is good to know and remember for future reference once I'm up to speed. Initially the stuff I would do would be just 'baby' steps like a screen for a name/address file that is connected to a database. Nothing hugely unique, rather more the standard and simple so that my thoughts and efforts can be on learning VB.NET itself. Thanks for your help. In all likelihood I'll be making further posts here once I have obtained the software and started working with it. This sounds like a fun adventure:D Ira

Actually, all I am wanting at this stage is just a starting point and from your description it sounds like standard would allow me to do just that. Primarily I am not concerned about ample templates and such since my main objective is to learn how to program in VB.NET. Financially this exepense would be coming out of my own pocket so that is why I was eyeballing the standard version since it appears to be about one seventh the cost of the professional. So as long as I can have something to get my feet wet in here at home to learn VB.NET by and as long as standard will allow me to connect to a local SQL database (either the trial MS SQL or through ODBC something like MySQL or other SQL) then this will provide me what I need at the moment. Ira

I am wanting to learn VB.NET and was wondering if the standard version of VB.NET would suffice as a starting point. I noticed a huge price difference between it and the professional, but thought maybe it would be better to start 'small' and move up to professional when it got to the point of needing it. Does this sound accurate or do you really need to start with the professional package to really learn and use VB.NET? Thanks, Ira