Elysian Shadows

I made some headway in this largely due to finding this:

https://www.dreamspark.com/default.aspx

Freakin awesome. I had no idea this was available to us, even my professor recommended express to the class.

I may have some more questions soon.

Wow, that's really cool!

Why would they have the express listed their because if you were verified then you could just get professional.

herby490 wrote:Why would they have the express listed their because if you were verified then you could just get professional.

The express is for Visual Basic. So I think they give C++ and C# professional and the express of VB..

Anyways, Express is a very very good tool and you can do 99% of the stuff you need with it and the other 1% using freely available tools. The professional version is just that - it has tools aimed at large proffetional teams, which you will most probably not use (expect maybe for a bit of the redistribution tools, which i showed can be done without it in 99% of the cases especially in small projects).

Yeah I know but if I can get professional for free that would be great.

herby490 wrote:Yeah I know but if I can get professional for free that would be great.

So you just like bigger installs? I don't really see why you should even bother..

You realize how good of a deal that is Visual Studio Pro alone is $800 plus you can get things robotics studio.

herby490 wrote:You realize how good of a deal that is Visual Studio Pro alone is $800 plus you can get things robotics studio.

Yes, I understand this, and it's very cool. Still, do you need them?

I do not need them but once I learn C++ I might want to move on to C# or another language and plus I am in robotics at my school and I might want to use the Robotics Developer.

Ok got you. Well C# also has a great express addition if you want, fyi.

And good luck with that robotics thing

Thanks

herby490 wrote:Why would they have the express listed their because if you were verified then you could just get professional.

It's because of the size, the pro and standard editions takes HUGE space.

I found this link by chance, searched for a student discount for Visual Studio 2008 lol (I actually started a topic for it http://bytes.com/topic/software-develop ... ual-studio).

Most universities have some way to obtain VS Pro for free.

I'm just in city college and I got it for free from www.dreamspark.com
It's a great program MS runs themselves. You just have to jump through a couple hoops to verify your student status, but it only took me about 15 minutes.

Maevik wrote:I'm just in city college and I got it for free from http://www.dreamspark.com
It's a great program MS runs themselves. You just have to jump through a couple hoops to verify your student status, but it only took me about 15 minutes.

If you go about it this way does your license for the software only last as long as you are a student? Do you need to re-verify each year?