From: Trouble on
Thank you all who answered this querry. I didn't know there was a trial
version of the latest VB.Net and That is what I will do. I would much rather
work in the Windows 7 patition than in the Win XP partition.

I will try VS Express and if successful with spring for the full version.

Thanks again

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" wrote:

> Am 30.03.2010 23:21, schrieb Trouble:
> > I have some time on my hands and decided to look again at VB.Net for a new
> > app. I bought VB.Net Standard 2002 and Matthew MacDonald's book back in 2004
> > I think.
>
> VB.NET Standard 2002 is a pretty old/outdated version.
>
> > I don't know if I am going to get through the pain of learning to program in
> > Net so rather than shell out the funds for the latest VB.Net, if I learn on
> > VB.Net 2002 is there a big gap when I buy and try to run the app in VB.net
> > 2010?
>
> I suggest not to use VB.NET 2002.
>
> For learning purposes I'd try the free Express editions of VS:
>
> <URL:http://www.microsoft.com/express/>
>
> Once you are familiar with the new programming language and programming
> environment, you may consider to buy one of the "bigger" versions of
> Visual Studio.
>
> --
> M S Herfried K. Wagner
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