For the most part, if you are doing simple development projects, then the
Express products will handled them nicely. The individual Express products
are more or less the individual modules contained in VS 2005. What you
don't have in the Express products are all the bells and whistles that come
with VS 2005 Professional (Crystal Reports for .NET, full deployment
functionality, source control) and Visual Studio Team System (team
development features like code coverage and unit testing). Overall, though,
the Express products can produce the same base applications and libraries
that can be produced in VS 2005.
As for approaching your decision regarding which version to use, yes, if you
have a large enterprise development structure in terms of either a large
number of developers or a large amount of development projects, then the
full Visual Studio products are maybe what you need. Look here for a
comparison of the various VS 2005 editions:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/pr...e/default.aspx
--
Christopher A. Reed
"The oxen are slow, but the earth is patient."
"serge calderara" <se************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:CB**********************************@microsof t.com...
Thanks for the info.
I read also that the plan was to approach students or dummies in .NEt
programing. But what I was afraid of for instance is that as it is free,
some
people or even companies ask you to make a developement under that express
version (it save company licence price) and then you start to build they
basic application and after a while they will request some extended
feature
that will not belonging to express but request for the move to enterprise
verison. Then either the company forget the improvement has they do not
want
to pay extra money, or you might be in trouble to approach theire request
if
you start to implemnt sofiticated feature.
At that time a clear idea of the limitation of express is require in order
to warm them before startzing to develop things.
regards
serge
"Cor Ligthert [MVP]" wrote:
serge,
Maybe was you more asking for something as this.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...US,VS.80).aspx
You can browse back inside the page to get information about more
products
Cor