"M Skabialka" <mskabialka@NOSPAMdrc.com> wrote in message
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>I am new to Visual Studio .NET. I bought some teach yourself books, and
>Visual Studio .NET 2003 Academic (I am taking other classes but there
>aren't any .NET classes locally). I installed this at home.
>
> I also signed up for some online classes through my work, but have come to
> a point where I actually have to have Visual Studio .NET installed to do
> the labs. Is it allowed by Microsoft to have the same Academic version
> installed in two places? I will never be at both places at once, and
> no-one else will use either of my machines to use VS.NET. It will be
> quite a while before I will be able to actaully create some real
> applications, at which point my company will buy a full version, but it's
> quite expensive and they aren't interested in the purchase yet.
>
> My other option is installing Visual Studio .NET 2005 beta at work, but I
> don't know how that will work with the books and online courses I am doing
> which are geared to the 2003 version.
>
> Advice please,
> Thanks,
> Mich
>

"Peter van der Goes" <p_vandergoes@toadstool.u> wrote in message
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> "M Skabialka" <mskabialka@NOSPAMdrc.com> wrote in message
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>>I am new to Visual Studio .NET. I bought some teach yourself books, and
>>Visual Studio .NET 2003 Academic (I am taking other classes but there
>>aren't any .NET classes locally). I installed this at home.
>>
>> I also signed up for some online classes through my work, but have come
>> to a point where I actually have to have Visual Studio .NET installed to
>> do the labs. Is it allowed by Microsoft to have the same Academic
>> version installed in two places? I will never be at both places at once,
>> and no-one else will use either of my machines to use VS.NET. It will be
>> quite a while before I will be able to actaully create some real
>> applications, at which point my company will buy a full version, but it's
>> quite expensive and they aren't interested in the purchase yet.
>>
>> My other option is installing Visual Studio .NET 2005 beta at work, but I
>> don't know how that will work with the books and online courses I am
>> doing which are geared to the 2003 version.
>>
>> Advice please,
>> Thanks,
>> Mich
>>
> AFAIK, the license is to the individual, not to a particular PC. So, you
> should be OK installing the product on a second PC (as long as you have
> control of that PC).
> I'd say try installing and see what happens during the process. If it goes
> OK, then use it for your courses.
> For more information, find "eula.txt" on your distribution CD's and see
> what the license says. If you're still not clear, contact Microsoft by
> telephone.
> Caveat: I'm neither a Microsoft employee, nor an attorney.
>
> --
> Peter [MVP Visual Developer]
> Jack of all trades, master of none.
>