That's right. The compiler is there, but that's all you get. You don't get a nice GUI development environment. If you want to compile apps with just the SDK, you do it at the C:> prompt.


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>I was of the belief, and ill quote from a book in a minute, that you can
>download the framework and SDK, and it is all you 'need' to develop apps. It
>comes with compilers etc..
>And the VS.NET is just a visual IDE for the framework...
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>The basic .NET SDK comes with tools that make the developer's life easier.
>There are tools for building and viewing IL: the Intermediated Language
>Assembler and the Intermediate Language Disassembler. Also included are the C-
>Sharp compiler and a debugger.
>Visual Studio.NET is the development environment of choice and is obviously a
>big part of the whole .NET developer experience, but its not included with the
>basic SDK.
>You can do useful development without VS.NET using Notepad or some other simple
>text editor if you cant afford VS.NET or if you just want to try out the
>concepts.
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>Taken from "C# and the .NET Framework, The C++ Perspective" by Robert Powell
>and Richard Weeks. © Sams Publishing 2002. ISBN: 0-672-32153-X