Bryan Carbonnell
carbonnb at sympatico.ca
Wed Dec 1 20:08:21 CST 2004
On 1 Dec 2004 at 16:42, Lawhon, Alan C Contractor/Mor wrote: > ... or just try to learn what I can from [VB.Net] books alone? <snip> > I would be grateful if some of the folks on this list who have > actually done some web programming (especially with VB.Net) could > offer advice and opinions with respect to the "Microsoft Visual Basic > .NET Standard 2003" [web] development tool. Basically, I'm wondering > if the "Standard" edition has enough capability to serve as a useful > "learning tool" - or is it so "crippled" that I would be better off > simply reading .NET books? If you are just interested in just a learning tool at the moment, let me suggest a .Net IDE that is free, #develop (http://sharpdevelop.net/OpenSource/SD/Default.aspx) #develop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free IDE for C# and VB.NET projects on Microsoft's .NET platform. It is open-source (GPL), and you can download both sourcecode and executables from this site. It is what I am using right now to play with VB.Net in my spare time. I didn't want to drop the $ on VS.NET or even VB.NET if I wasn't sure if I'd do any developing in it or not, so this is a great alternate for me. The only downside is that it can be a bit slow to compile, but that may be because of the laptop I'm using it on (PIII-500 256 MB RAM) Just a thought. -- Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at sympatico.ca I've learned.... That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.