>>>THe framework is free.
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>>Ok, good, but in the other message you just did, it says that it is available to MSDN subscribers. Does that mean I need to purchase a subscription to MSDN to obtain it? Or, what did it mean exactly?
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>You seems to mix 2 things:
>-the framework (which is free) is only the run-time.
>-Visual Studio .Net is what you need to buy (or that comes in MSDN) to develop application that runs on the framework.

So, if I would use VB.Net for the development environment, combined with the run time, I would then be able to develop an application. If I understand correctly, whatever development environment I will use (VB.Net, C#, etc.), it has to be combined with the .Net framework in order to do something.