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Title: I am getting the new visual studio for my birthday and I need some help.
Post by: Botsareus on July 30, 2009, 12:01:16 PM

1.) Where can I get visual studio 2008: Best buy? Radio Shack?  Internet?

2.) Will it include vb.net and C#?

3.) Will it be compatible with my windows XP if I have .net frame work installed?

4.) As far as I understand the new DB is written in C#?

Title: I am getting the new visual studio for my birthday and I need some help.
Post by: ikke on July 30, 2009, 01:17:22 PM

I don't know your age and access possibilities but a decade ago, when I was a student, students paid only 5-10% of the fee. It may be worth the effort to see if this still exists and applies to you.

Title: I am getting the new visual studio for my birthday and I need some help.
Post by: Shasta on July 30, 2009, 03:23:36 PM

Quote from: ikke

I don't know your age and access possibilities but a decade ago, when I was a student, students paid only 5-10% of the fee. It may be worth the effort to see if this still exists and applies to you.

Better than this, students can get Visual Studio Pro 2005/8 entirely for free. Dreamspark  (https://www.dreamspark.com/default.aspx)would be the site to check out.

To answer the other questions: 2) Yes. 3) Yes. 4) Yes.

Title: I am getting the new visual studio for my birthday and I need some help.
Post by: Ta-183 on July 30, 2009, 05:18:22 PM

Visual studio? I didn't like it. I stuck with DevC++. Then again, it was just C++....

Title: I am getting the new visual studio for my birthday and I need some help.
Post by: Numsgil on July 30, 2009, 08:14:59 PM

Even if you're not a student you can get the express edition of Visual Studio for free.  See clicky (http://www.microsoft.com/express/vcsharp/).  I have it installed on my laptop instead of the professional edition, so I know for a fact that DB3 will work just fine with express.

Title: I am getting the new visual studio for my birthday and I need some help.
Post by: Botsareus on July 31, 2009, 10:00:12 AM

I went to the following two websites:

http://www.microsoft.com/express/vb/Default.aspx (http://www.microsoft.com/express/vb/Default.aspx)
http://www.microsoft.com/express/vcsharp/Default.aspx (http://www.microsoft.com/express/vcsharp/Default.aspx)

Questions:

1.) Is the vb site Visual Basic .net ? (The one I can translate directly to c# and wise versa)

2.) Is this stuff completely free, or is it a trial offer?

3.) Will it include MSDN? If not, where can I get it? ( I really don't want to turn on the internet every time I have to look a command up)

P. S.

Thank you everyone for your help...

Title: I am getting the new visual studio for my birthday and I need some help.
Post by: Numsgil on July 31, 2009, 05:48:46 PM

1.  Yes, it's VB.net.  They've just about disowned VB6 anymore.

2.  Yes, completely free.  Visual Studio is just about lingua franca for professional programmers, but the open source compilers are beginning to make a dent in their user base, so they're trying to encourage adoption of their technology.  Likewise with C#.  It's a proprietary language basically, so the only way they can make sure it gets wide adoption is to offer a free version and then hook professionals in with an expanded version with more tools and options.  But don't worry about that right now, you won't miss any of the tools

3.  Probably not "out of the box", but you can get a download for it if not.  Likewise free.