Rick,

>About to jump back into the .NET world again (and probably take another MM class), but before I do, I wanted to purchase VS 2008 and SQL Server.
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>What MSDN subscription would you recommend? I would be the only developer using this initially.
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>Sorry for the naive question, but I looked at MS site and was rather confused by the many offerings. Any insight you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Craig's right--you should look at VS 2008 Professional. Have you read about Microsoft's Empower Program as mentioned in my blog?

https://empower-isv.one.microsoft.com/isv/programguide/Default.aspx

If you keep clicking the Next button, you'll get to the Benefits page which, among other things, lists the following benefit that you get for just $375 (the best deal in town). Basically, they are asking that you:

1. Have a web site
2. Will create a .NET application

Best Regards,