Visual Studio 2005 upgrade decision help

[W C Hull]

Now that Visual Studio 2005 has been out a while I'm hoping that someone can
give me some insight on what version to upgrade to (standard or
professional). I went out on Microsoft's site and looked at the comparison
chart and didn't find anything really significant between the two versions
from my perspective. I have Visual Basic Professional 6.0 and have written
a few standalone programs. No network, no databases just a few simple
programs for myself and others that perform simple but very specialized
tasks. Right now I believe that upgrading to the Standard Edition is
probably my best bet but I also thought upgrading to XP Home Edition instead
of XP Pro Edition was the right decision too (grin). Can anyone give me a
hard reason why it would be better to to upgrade to the pro version over the
standard version?

[David C. Barber]

If you're just looking to try it out and get some feeling for it, there is a
*free* downloadable "Express" version you can get directly from MS. You can
work with it and even sell you work under the license terms, and it appears
to implement virtually the entire base language. Other 2005 .Net languages
are also available this way. You can pay and upgrade later if you need some
advanced enterprise feature(s).

David

"W C Hull" <su**************************************@hotmaill .com> wrote in
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Now that Visual Studio 2005 has been out a while I'm hoping that someone can give me some insight on what version to upgrade to (standard or
professional). I went out on Microsoft's site and looked at the comparison chart and didn't find anything really significant between the two versions
from my perspective. I have Visual Basic Professional 6.0 and have written a few standalone programs. No network, no databases just a few simple
programs for myself and others that perform simple but very specialized
tasks. Right now I believe that upgrading to the Standard Edition is
probably my best bet but I also thought upgrading to XP Home Edition instead of XP Pro Edition was the right decision too (grin). Can anyone give me a
hard reason why it would be better to to upgrade to the pro version over the standard version?

[Michael D. Ober]

As far as I can tell, the only thing the professional edition has over
standard is code profiling and better optimazation. The standard edition
even has setup projects, which isn't on the MS web-site's chart.

Mike Ober.

"W C Hull" <su**************************************@hotmaill .com> wrote in
message news:MIOCf.15118$K17.8043@trnddc03...

Now that Visual Studio 2005 has been out a while I'm hoping that someone can give me some insight on what version to upgrade to (standard or
professional). I went out on Microsoft's site and looked at the comparison chart and didn't find anything really significant between the two versions
from my perspective. I have Visual Basic Professional 6.0 and have written a few standalone programs. No network, no databases just a few simple
programs for myself and others that perform simple but very specialized
tasks. Right now I believe that upgrading to the Standard Edition is
probably my best bet but I also thought upgrading to XP Home Edition instead of XP Pro Edition was the right decision too (grin). Can anyone give me a
hard reason why it would be better to to upgrade to the pro version over the standard version?