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90-Day Evaluation expiration?

Joe
I am developing a Pocket PC application using eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0.

Microsoft has Visual Studio 2005 Professional 90-Day Trial available that I
would like to look into, but their website does not say what happens after
the 90 Days has expired.

What happens after the 90-Day Trial expires? Does the program uninstall?
Will I lose all of my work? If so, I certainly do not want to try it out.
Sep 5 '06 #1
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Joe,

I am assuming it just stopps working. Your projects would still be stored
in their original folders that you can copy out,
and it would not uninstall.

Normal Visual Studio creates folders with your projects into. So you can
access them from windows.

If they were to uninstall and auto delete - that would be like a "virus" and
deleting ur work which is a no no.

I beleive there is some law as well...
That you can stop your program from working but the data actually belongs to
the user - not to you.
( something like that - or you cant prevent the user to the data )
which is what they would be doing by deleting.

Someone who has run the trial could probably tell u... but it would be a
first I would see that it would actually uninstall
itself and delete ur data.

Ever notice that games even uninstall and leave behind the saved games ?

So upon saying that... I know there are legality issues, if you ever write a
program, you cannot "delete" out the users data
when a users registration expires. They can go after you. They just have
to stop using ur exe.

Miro.
"Joe" <Jo*@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:BE**********************************@microsof t.com...
>I am developing a Pocket PC application using eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0.

Microsoft has Visual Studio 2005 Professional 90-Day Trial available that
I
would like to look into, but their website does not say what happens after
the 90 Days has expired.

What happens after the 90-Day Trial expires? Does the program uninstall?
Will I lose all of my work? If so, I certainly do not want to try it out.

Sep 5 '06 #2
Joe
Thanks Miro. That helps, but I'm going to hold off for a more complete answer.

What I am hoping is that I can continue to debug my application; I just
can't create a release version. Work has promised me VS 2005 Pro for over 3
months, and I'm tired of trying to develop with eVC4.

If I can get VS 2005 Pro "Eval" to work in debug mode until the project is
done, then I can go to my managers and say, "As soon as you pay to register
Microsoft's product, you can have a release version."

That sounds like a fair way to go, but I just don't know what happens after
Microsoft's 90-Day period.
Sep 5 '06 #3
After the 90 days, if you attempt to use the product, you will be informed
that the product evaluation period is over and the program will terminate.

As Miro says, your work will remain intact and if you were to purchase VS
2005, you would be able to open those projects and continue to use them.
But, after the trial is over, it's over.
"Joe" <Jo*@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:B2**********************************@microsof t.com...
Thanks Miro. That helps, but I'm going to hold off for a more complete
answer.

What I am hoping is that I can continue to debug my application; I just
can't create a release version. Work has promised me VS 2005 Pro for over
3
months, and I'm tired of trying to develop with eVC4.

If I can get VS 2005 Pro "Eval" to work in debug mode until the project is
done, then I can go to my managers and say, "As soon as you pay to
register
Microsoft's product, you can have a release version."

That sounds like a fair way to go, but I just don't know what happens
after
Microsoft's 90-Day period.

Sep 5 '06 #4

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