VB .NET 2003 Standard vs. Professional

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What is the difference between the two? Does the professional edition allow you to sell your product commercially? If I were to write an application in standard, and then later decided to get the professional edition, would I have to re-write the program in the professional edition or would the code remain the same?
 
Okay... now I understand it, but... my next question is, could I intially create a program where say... a portion of it was created in VB and then maybe another portion such as a class or module (please bear with me I am still quite new) was created in C++ be used interchangeably. I guess the best way to ask it, if I created one program, and inter-mixed the two languages... would the program work? I am just trying to explore my options here... I haven't upgraded to VB .NET 2003 (was going to this weekend), but I am wondering if I should hold out and save the $$$ to get the Professional Edition.
 
You can't create one assembly (exe or DLL) using more than one language with VS.NET (any edition). If im not mistaken its possible using some advanced command line compiler options.
 
Each project in Visual Studio .NET must be a single language, however a solution can have multiple projects, and therefore multiple languages. If you choose to develop using two or more languages, you'll likely want to use an n-tier or otherwise modular approach.
 
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