Hello Fellow programmers....

I am a programmer myself, but I program calculators... anyways, I have a question please: I would like to know "What is the difference between Microsoft Visual Studio [Standard/Professional/Enterprise...Doesn't matter] and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET

Besides the obvious that one of them is expensive, what is the major difference(s)?

Please help me out.

thanks in advance.

-Ghooooost

You are comparing apples to oranges.

Standard, Professional, and Enterprise are different levels that MS uses to describe many of their products. For example, MS Office is available in Standard and Professional version (not sure about Enterprise). MS Visual Studio 6.0 is/was available in Standard, Professional and Enterprise versions. MS Visual Studio .NET is available in Standard, Professional, and Enterprise versions. The generic difference between the three versions is that Standard is the cheapest and has the fewest features, while Enterprise is the most expensive and has the most features. You can look at the MS website for a comparison of features between the versions.

MS Visual Studio .NET can be considered MS Visual Studio 7.0. It is the next major upgrade from MS Visual Studio 6.0. It includes C/C++, C#, Java, VB and some other minor stuff. C# and I believe Java are new to MS VS since 6.0

On a side note. Visual Studio 6.0 had J++.
Visual Studio .NET has C#. Don't forget that .NET has most, if not all, of the features that were available in 6.0. The main thing here is the .NET framework which
may be the technology that MS applications will be centered around in the future. I personally have both, but I have turned a cold shoulder to 6.0 after using .NET.

Definitely, check out the .NET framework white papers... to see if it is even worth the time/effort in your implementation.

IR

MS has included its owned Java in .NET plattform calles J#. Although the grammatic of J# is very close to Java, I would say not to use this language, because it is included some classes (or packages) that are not compatible with the real Java (http://java.sun.com). Therefore the famous Java magic words "write once, run anywhere", wouldnt be run under J#. If you want to programm Java than just use standard Java from Sun. If you want programm under .NET plattform than use c# or VB.Net (C# is a very interesting language which is close to Java, VB.Net is easier to learn)

San