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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 =\

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



I am sorry, but I am fucked up right now

(so development)



alright, that's what i thought, thx

.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.

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.

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.

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

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