I am the network admin and main tech support for a small
college. I just installed VS.NET for this semester. The
books the students buy come with VS.NET also.

There is a version conflict between what the yhave and
what I have. I checked for update VS.NET auto-update
feature but it seems lacking.

Students have the following version numbers.
Microsoft Delevelopment- version 7.1.3088
Microsoft Framework 1.1- version 1.1.4322

Classrooms have the following version numbers.
Microsoft Delevelopment- version 7.0.9466
Microsoft Framework 1.1- version 1.0.3705

what do I need to downlaod/install to get to the proper
version?

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It looks to me like the students are getting Visual Studio .NET 2003, and
your classrooms have Visual Studio.NET 2002. However, your report of the
classroom Framework version is a bit strange, as AFAIK, Visual Studio .NET
2002 is hard coded to work with .NET Framework v1.0.x. Are your sure the
classroom framework isn't 1.0 - version 1.0.3705?
If the classrooms are left with 2002 and the students use 2003 at home,
there are going to be backward compatibility problems when their solutions
are brought to your college.
A 2002 solution can almost always be updated to 2003 with a single mouse
click (when a 2002 solution is opened in 2003, the user is invited to
convert in a dialog box). No such "automatic" conversion is available for
conversion from 2003 to 2002.
There are manual conversion techniques available, and even a utility that
will do the job here:

http://www.codeproject.com/macro/vsconvert.asp

All this said, if you have the ability to obtain and install Visual Studio
..NET 2003 in your classrooms, that is by far the best solution. You can even
leave 2002 installed and install 2003 in addition if you have the hard
space.
HTH>

--
Peter - [MVP - Academic]

If you don't already have membership in the MSDN AA program (www.msdnaa.net)
then you will want to look into it. $799 a year for all academic computers,
all faculty computers and all student computers. It's probably the least
expensive way to keep your lab current.

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