VB .Net (Academic)

[dinga]

I am thinking of buying VB.Net from microsoft. Can anyone tell me if there are any differences in the Academic version 2003 compared to the standard version 2003.

Cheers
Dinga

 

[mutant]

Academic version is like Professional version with additional student tools and the price is lower because its for education.
If you have choice between those 2 go with Academic all the way.

 

[noRulez]

I did notice that the ms website said that the 2003 upgrade to .NET was not available to academic version owners...so you might keep that in mind. It looks like there will be limitations. Correct me if I'm wrong on that.

 

[mutant]

Upgrades are not available to for Standard editions either, and he will buy 2003 now anyway

 

[noRulez]

Yeah, but I was mentioning this for any future upgrades, etc... There could be things that he would miss out on...

 

[philprice]

I got my acedemic version for free, thank you microsoft

 

[John]

How?

 

[wyrd]

I have Academic.. no complaints here. Does everything I need it to.

 

[mutant]

It would all be good with professional/AE version but I read somewhere that the server explorer only works with MSDE and not MSSQL

 

[wyrd]

Well, you can connect to MS SQL servers and view details about tables, etc. It's just that you have to manage all of your DB info via code, it doesn't give you all them nifty options to quickly build your table via a few clicks.

 

[dinga]

Academic version

Thanks, I think that confirms it for me. I will get the academic version and save the $$$

 

[ThePentiumGuy]

The only problem with the academic is that you cant distribute the programs you make with it for money

 

[John]

Yes you can. Microsoft says that you shouldn't, not that you can't. This is a welome change, for me anyway, from VB6.

 

[wyrd]

Orbity: Where's it say this? I was always under the impression you couldn't (not that I actually ever cared since there's no way you can possibly tell, but still)

 

[John]

The real question is, where does it say you can't?
http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/MessageBoard/Thread.aspx?id=13271
http://www.visualbasicforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=74111

 

[wyrd]