Question of software choice

[neon]

Hello all

I have a general question I hope someone can help me answer. I am a newbie to .Net and I am in the process of getting ready to start taking some classes. At work, we are going to move some of our apps to the .net framework. I am trying to get head start on learning. I am going to buld some web apps on my own time at home. The problem is I can not fork out the money needed for visual studio. I was looking at Visual C# .net 2003 software bundle. I was woundering what I would be missing if I learned with this instead of the visual studio. We are only going to build apps with C# and use some ASP. Are there big differences between the two or something I will not be able to do with one or the other. Thanks for you time in advance for answering my question

[Erik Frey]

Before you look at forking out cash for toying around with code at home,
you should check out SharpDevelop. I think it's a pretty good, free (as in
beer) IDE:

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/

"neon" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hello all,

I have a general question I hope someone can help me answer. I am a

newbie to .Net and I am in the process of getting ready to start taking some
classes. At work, we are going to move some of our apps to the .net
framework. I am trying to get head start on learning. I am going to buld
some web apps on my own time at home. The problem is I can not fork out the
money needed for visual studio. I was looking at Visual C# .net 2003
software bundle. I was woundering what I would be missing if I learned with
this instead of the visual studio. We are only going to build apps with C#
and use some ASP. Are there big differences between the two or something I
will not be able to do with one or the other. Thanks for you time in
advance for answering my question

[neon]

Erik,

Thanks for the info. I will take a look at that. I also got my manager to expense the Visual C# .net 2003. So I will play with that too.