If you want to get Visual Studio, you have options -- you can either get the
professional developers. It's probably fine if you just want to learn the
language, though. For more information, search groups.google.com for
"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf.nosp@m.activevb.de> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> "Carsten" <carsten.troelsgaard@mail.dk> schrieb:
> >For some time I have wanted to get passed the hurdle in
> >Java, that it is quite different from the coding in
> >visual basic that I am used to. - And great was my
> >surprice to find this tutorial of visual basic .net :
> [...]
> >This language seems to combine what I don't understand in
> >Java and vb into something I intuitively comprehend.
> >Great! I look for a buy or download of
> >Visual basic .net
> >and can find
> >1) visual studio .net
>
>
http://www.microsoft.com/vstudio >
> There you will find information on the different editions, pricing and so
> on.
>
> >or
> >2) vb .net Framework.
>
> The .NET Framework is free:
>
>
http://www.microsoft.com/netframework >
> You will find a link to the download of the .NET Framework SDK there.
>
> >Which one contains the features (compiler, class library
> >etc) of what the above tutorial call visual basic .net?
> >I don´t need the IDE that follows visual studio .net.
> >Can anyone suggest an update ?
>
> Visual Studio .NET is an IDE for Visual Basic .NET, C# and some other
> programming languages. VS.NET is a commercial product. On the other hand
> there is the .NET Framework and the .NET Framework SDK, the SDK contains
> tools required for developing .NET applications, but no IDE.
>
> --
> Herfried K. Wagner
> MVP · VB Classic, VB.NET
>
http://www.mvps.org/dotnet >
>