New MSDN pricing

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Apr 062005
 

Of course, just when I am looking to buy VS.NET (or just Visual C#), Microsoft announces the new VS.NET versions and the new MSDN subscriptions. Grab on to your chair, make sure you can’t fall, and click on this link to view the new options/prices.

What the hell happened? MSDN Universal ($2800) used to cover “everything”, but if you want everything now, you need to shell out $11000 (and $4500 renewal). Geeez. The only thing close in price is VS.NET Pro + MSDN Premium ($2500), but that would mean no team-support whatsoever, as you can see here.

 Posted by at 16:46

What about Visual C# Standard?

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Apr 062005
 

Visual Studio has support for VB.NET, C#, J# and C++.NET. But I’m only going to use C#. So I think I’m going to look into Visual C# Standard. I lacks remote debugging, and most of the deployment options of Visual Studio. And MSDN Library says that it lacks:

The “server” node in the Server Explorer.
* Developers will commonly use this feature to visually design server-side solutions.

I’m not sure if I’m going to miss this feature. Update: I’m not going to miss this feature. It’s the database-connections treeview. Handy feature when you have it, but I won’t miss it when it is not.

Visual C# Standard only costs US$109.

 Posted by at 15:27