On 11 Jul 2006 17:58:44 -0700, "kmich" <km**********@gmail.comwrote:
>iwdu15, thank you for replying to my message. I currently have a the
choice of using either. The investment was already made into 2003 Pro a
couple years ago. I also have in front of me both Sams Teach Yourself
Visual C# 2003 and 2005. Just unsure if I will be missing out on new
important things because the version of 2003 is old or because the 2005
lite version lacks "essential" features. Thanks again :)
My understanding, which may well be wrong, is that the Express
versions are full implementations of the language and SDK, i.e. no
essential features are missing from VC2K5, and many non-essential
features are missing from VS2K3. 2K5 has a lot of improvements and
new controls that make it easier and faster to write programs, based
on feedback from the 2K3 version. It will also install version 2 of
the Net framework, which might be required to run third party
programs, while installing VS2K3 will install the Net 1.1 framework.
Of course, with VS2K3, you will get all the other languages in VS, but
if you aren't going to use them, they will just waste space on your
drive. VS2K3 may also have more options in the IDE and debugger, but
probably not anything a beginner needs.