Visual Studio .net 2003 [Archive] - ForumsHQ

[Raybdbomb]

Alright... i got this, purchased it.... although i'm not completely sure what it is. i had an old visual studio but i lost it...



is it a graphics application or a development program or what? i'd like to know before i install all this stuff it's askin me to do =\

[War Hawk]

its a for people that make programs... ie visual basic, c++ etc..



I am sorry, but I am fucked up right now

[Raybdbomb]

(so development)



alright, that's what i thought, thx

[EvanElias]

.NET is microsoft's answer to java... basically visual studio .net takes all the old visual langauges (c++, vb, etc) and makes .net versions of them, and also adds the new language c# ("c sharp") which is a great language but is a blatant java rip-off.



Its essentially worthless right now for writing PC applications, b/c it requires the .NET runtime virtual machine, which most people dont bother to download. It'll be big in a few years tho when that stuff starts gettin included in your basic windows install.

[Aragon]

one "cool" thing is you can make a program in many different languages and have it all compiled together to make a program...



like you can program an app using java, c++, vB, etc... it will compile it all the the same intermediate language.

[EvanElias]

yeah, that is definitely one of the coolest things about .net ... especially considering that some languages are great for certain specialized tasks (ie perl -> text processing, vb -> gui's, java -> sockets) and you can use all of them in one program... definitely sweet.

[syntax53]

i got it for free a long time ago for going to one of the events when it was launched :)

[NIN]

they are gonna move everything to .net



you should've asked for Visual Studio... i have like 7 copys Ray

i could upload it to ur ftp