[Year 12 Its] VB.NEt Pricing

[Frank Van Den Boom]

Our IT staff found the Express version a pain to install and manage,
because every installation needs to be registered separately. 

-----Original Message-----
From: is-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:is-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
Behalf Of Brendan BASEGGIO
Sent: Friday, 6 October 2006 9:29 AM
To: is at edulists.com.au
Subject: Re: [Year 12 Its] VB.NEt Pricing

Frank,

Just for your information, Visual Studio Express Editions are free
forever.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/faq/

10. How much will these products cost? 
Effective April 19th, 2006, all Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions are
free permanently. This pricing covers all Visual Studio 2005 Express
Editions including Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual J#, and
Visual Web Developer as well as all localized versions of Visual Studio
Express. 

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition has always been and will continue to be
a free download.

Regards,
 


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Brendan Baseggio CCNA CCAI MCSE
Learning Technology Support
Forest Hill College 8724
Email: b.baseggio at fhc.vic.edu.au
Phone: 9814 9448
Mobile: 0425 786 935

And with that request, a piece of straw turns a camel into a paraplegic
...

>>> frankm at sjc.vic.edu.au 09/09/06 06:43pm >>>
Hello Colleagues,
We are in the budgeting phase for 2007. I am currently using vb.net
express. I am wondering if anyone knows anything about pricing for
priviate schools for vb.net whe I presume the express version is no
longer free.
 
Currently, for our school to get vb.net we would have to purchase the
full visual studio suite at just over $100 per license. has anyone
delved into the MSDN Academic Alliance? 
 
On another topic, how stable have people using vb,.net express found it
on their student systems? In my class of 26 years 9/10 students, we find
the product reasonably stable but some students get some strange system
errors occasionally (strange I suppoose because of the cryptic way the
application reports errors)...of course our system protection mechanisms
would not have anything to do with that....would they...??
 
Regards,
	<mailto:is at edulists.com.au> 	
 
Frank Merlino
Technology Faculty Co-ordinator, Website manager St. Joseph's College
Newtown, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Phone: 03 52268100
Fax: 03 52216983


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