upgrading to VB .net 2005

18 Apr 2006 6:14 PM

Brad Pears

We currently own the first version of VS .net - the 2002 version. We would
like to upgrade to the 2005 version. We are not sure whether to go with the
standard or the professional version. Apparently the std. ver. does not
include Crystal reports - but we already own Crystal ver 9.0 anyway because
our accounting software required that. It appears that this is the on;ly
really big difference that we would care about anyway, so can we just
purchase the std. version of VS .net 2005 and use the version of Crystal we
already own and have Crystal be integrated the way it is in the 2005
version? or should we really be going to the pro version? We are cost
prohibited so the cheaper the better - and std. is a lot less money...

If anyone has any ideas in this area I'd love to hear them!!

Thanks,

Brad

18 Apr 2006 8:01 PM

VJ

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/compare/default.aspx

Maybe that will help you decide what you want..

Vijay

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"Brad Pears" <donotre***@notreal.com> wrote in message
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> We currently own the first version of VS .net - the 2002 version. We
> would like to upgrade to the 2005 version. We are not sure whether to go
> with the standard or the professional version. Apparently the std. ver.
> does not include Crystal reports - but we already own Crystal ver 9.0
> anyway because our accounting software required that. It appears that this
> is the on;ly really big difference that we would care about anyway, so can
> we just purchase the std. version of VS .net 2005 and use the version of
> Crystal we already own and have Crystal be integrated the way it is in the
> 2005 version? or should we really be going to the pro version? We are cost
> prohibited so the cheaper the better - and std. is a lot less money...
>
> If anyone has any ideas in this area I'd love to hear them!!
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad
>

19 Apr 2006 9:13 AM

Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]

The safest approach is to actually test it with an evaluation version:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/trial/default.aspx

It seems that curiously there is no evaluation version for the Standard
edition, so you may want to contact Microsoft to request one...

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Best regards,

Carlos J. Quintero

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"Brad Pears" <donotre***@notreal.com> escribió en el mensaje
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> We currently own the first version of VS .net - the 2002 version. We
> would like to upgrade to the 2005 version. We are not sure whether to go
> with the standard or the professional version. Apparently the std. ver.
> does not include Crystal reports - but we already own Crystal ver 9.0
> anyway because our accounting software required that. It appears that this
> is the on;ly really big difference that we would care about anyway, so can
> we just purchase the std. version of VS .net 2005 and use the version of
> Crystal we already own and have Crystal be integrated the way it is in the
> 2005 version? or should we really be going to the pro version? We are cost
> prohibited so the cheaper the better - and std. is a lot less money...
>
> If anyone has any ideas in this area I'd love to hear them!!
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad
>