I'm never sure that I am not confusing something, but I basically understood the difference. Your explanation did clear some things up though. Thanks.

>Are you sure you are not confusing the .NET framework with Visual Studio.NET?
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>The .NET framework is all you need to server up .NET web applications. It comes in three varieties: Redistribution Kit, ASP Premium, and Complete .NET framework with Samples (110MB). The .NET framework is free and is available for anyone to download, always has been, always will be. It has no IDE tools. This is the part of .NET that you would install on the Web server.
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>VS.NET is what you would install on a Workstation in order to do development with the IDE tools.
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>When Microsoft released visual studio beta2 they made a boo-boo. It was originally going to be released as a Premium version and an Enterprise version. The premium version was set to expire as soon as it was installed, so Microsoft just decided to give the Enterprise version of Beta 2 to everyone. VS.NET Beta 2 probably has an expiration, but I don't know what it is. The Framework has no expiration.
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>Hope this helps.
>-Dave
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>>Crescencio,
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>>Thanks for the link. After some looking I saw that beta2 people should wait until final release since the RC doesn't have as many features as beta2?!? <s>
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>>>>I am a MS Certified Partner. Does anyone know when the release candidate of .NET will be made available to MCPs or Universal Subscribers?
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>>>>I am needing to install the whole shebang on my server to serve some web apps, and just know if I initiate this the UPS will knock on the door with the RC <s>
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>>>>Thanks
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>>>It's available to anyone who requests it, not sure about universal subscribers. You can order it at: www.msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/nextgen/getrc.asp (this was on the MSDN flash today)
>>>HTH