Subj : Visual Studio
To   : art
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Dec 04 2009 13:38:00

  Re: about this subgroup
  By: art to mrproper on Thu Dec 03 2009 14:36:17

 >  > On another note--I have installed VS2010, but not yet use it. Nightfox, I
 >  > you mentioned that you've used it before? What's new with 2010?

Actually I haven't used 2010 yet..  I've been using Visual Studio 2008.

 >  > I must be the only idiot in the world to have actually purchased VS2008
 >  > Professional Edition, and now they've giving most of it away for free! D'

There are actually some differences between the Express versions and the
Professional editions..  I noticed that Visual C++ Express does not come with
the resource editor, which is included in the Professional edition.  The
resource editor can be fairly handy for including things like icons, bitmaps
(graphic data), etc. in your executable.  I'm sure there are other features
that aren't included in the Express editions too..

 >  > On the plus side I can legitimately use as many SQL 2005 instances as I w
 >  > plus it comes with the SQL Developer edition which is almost the same as
 >  > Enterprise... tasty!

I haven't used Microsoft's SQL Server, but I've used MySQL and PostgreSQL and
must say that they're pretty good for free products.  I believe that
open-source products (such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux, Apache, etc.) really
seem to be competitive with other proprietary solutions that cost a lot of
money.

 Nightfox

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