>>>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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>Sorry for the confusion...
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>The Framework is free. Anyone can download it. What you have to buy are tools like Visual Studio .Net that use the framework.

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