How much to buy Visual Studio?
Computing and PC help and advice, programming, games, digital audio, mobile phones and electronic miscellanea.
| Announcements | Posted on | |
|---|---|---|
-
- Reputation:
- Thread Starter
- TSR Legend
- Posts: 12,937
How much to buy Visual Studio?Hi guys,
Im thinking of buying Visual Studio. what programming languages does this include i have heard it included C++ and .NET. Anything else?
Will it be a good buy? and how much will i be set back in terms of price?
Cheers guys
Flukey
-
- Reputation:
- Exalted and Worshipped Member
- Location: Gibb
its not cheap but if you go to the microsoft website you can get the beta version of it either thru the post or download for free
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/get/
ive just ordered, lol dont know why I dont really know any programming langauge -
- Reputation:
- Overlord in Training
- Posts: 2,611
What about the developers, they need paying!(Original post by GiBB*89)
why do they charge that much, i read somewere i costs them no more than about £1 per cd to make. so they make £1999 profit.
Can they really expect people to pay that much, it just encourages piracy! -
- Reputation:
- Thread Starter
- TSR Legend
- Posts: 12,937
yeah it is enforcing piracy but at the end of the day it may only cost 1 quid to make a cd, buts its all the programming and work involved to make the software, but i do think they could lower the costs loads for students.
Cheers guys fro your help -
- Reputation:
- Overlord in Training
- Posts: 2,611
Almost all of MS's software has an academic equilivent. You just need to find a supplier, who will sell it to you.
When I bought my vs.net academic I had to fill a form out with my address, phone, name, dob and my schools details. they never contacted me though. -
- Reputation:
- TSR Legend
You would want to buy Visual Studio.NET 2003 if you want to save money. If you want to spend a bit more buy the 2005 version. It includes, VB, C++, C#, and J# (all languages are .NET).
You can get a stduent discount when you buy it though. If you don't have it, it could cost about 1000 quid or more.
I would suggest to buy the professional version if you are serious about it. However, I think academic will be fine for the time being. By the way, I have the professional version. I would never buy the architect version, as I'm not that good. -
- Reputation:
- Overlord in Training
- Posts: 2,611
My vs.net 2002 academic has everything the same as the professional version, at least last time i checked. vb, c++, C# and j# . I even got some extra student tools and a load of posters.(Original post by trev)
You would want to buy Visual Studio.NET 2003 if you want to save money. If you want to spend a bit more buy the 2005 version. It includes, VB, C++, C#, and J# (all languages are .NET).
You can get a stduent discount when you buy it though. If you don't have it, it could cost about 1000 quid or more.
I would suggest to buy the professional version if you are serious about it. However, I think academic will be fine for the time being. By the way, I have the professional version. I would never buy the architect version, as I'm not that good. -
- Reputation:
- TSR Legend
Cool. What did the posters look like and about?(Original post by python05)
My vs.net 2002 academic has everything the same as the professional version, at least last time i checked. vb, c++, C# and j# . I even got some extra student tools and a load of posters.
I don't think there is much difference between academic and professional though, especially when they have the same programming languages. Obviously, there is a difference in architect edition.
Do any of you know do uni's use VS.NET (architect edition)? -
- Reputation:
- TSR Legend
- Location: 0xbaadf00d
- Posts: 10,309
Some university offer it for free... well, technically, the university isn't offering it. Microsoft is. I can download it for free along with whole load other MS products. Some universities sell them at a price of 20 pounds. I think Warwick sells it for 20 to its students. Universities do this kind of thing. Oxford, Edinburgh and others sell Maple for 10 or 20 pounds.
I'm more of a Borland person than Microsoft. Unfortunately, they don't do free give-aways... CBuilder cost a hell lot more than anything I can think of... -
- Reputation:
- Full Member
- Location: Edinburgh
- Posts: 108
the full edition of visual studio (Enterprise architect edition) will cost around £2,000, but depending on what exactly you want out of it you should probably go for something cheaper. Maybe just C# C++ VB
http://www.dabs.com/uk/Search2/Produ...hphrase=visual
