Can someone who knows more about such things please give me an opinion as to the usefulness of the express versions recently made available for free. I know some of the folks who read here have excellent programming skills....
wrong group obviously :of)
I don't really know what restrictions there are. You should try to attend one of Microsoft's rollout events where they're handing out free copies of visual stuido.
I tried Express VERY shortly, seemed to be quite ok, but there were problems with pc that had also VB6 installed (so I uninstalled it really fast) also SW API support told me that they had problems with older .Net and newest VS when both were installed.
My guess is that you don't get that much answers for you question because MS is not yelling that much out there "hey, we have this free version available"...so there isn't that much users either. My other guess is that, as you can read from various resources, new VS is quite buggy, VB6 is still kicking ass.
But...that kind of package of tools for free...not bad.
Using the Visual Studio .NET tools is the future and very powerful when compared to VB6.0 or VC++ 6.0. The ability to generate web apps along with winforms with these tools is awesome!
We have been developing with .NET since Sept. 2000 and it gets better with each new release.
Best Regards,
Bob Hanson Senior Solutions Provider Centare Group Ltd.
I have been looking at some of the video tutorials listed in the resources and it seems pretty cool to me. Probably will end up downloading one or two of the Express editions. It seems like I could make a small but functional website fairly readily....with a bit of artistic sense in the layout and colour scheme it should look ok. I am not really 'into' programming...so many things to do....but I would like to learn more. Which do you think would be the better to/most useful to know of VB, C#, C++ for general purposes? My current knowledge is limited to Basic and Python. thanks neil
The language versus speed issue no longer exists in .NET so if you are most comfortable looking at Basic syntax, VB.NET would be the closest match or if more comfortable with C or C++ syntax typically C# is then selected.
Best regards,
Bob Hanson Senior Solutions Provider Centare Group Ltd.
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