Craig;

This will lead to more information:

http://www.microsoft.com/catalog/default.asp?subid=22

Just select the product. What I do not see is the "Debugger" listed in the VB .NET or C# .NET Standard products. Then again I remember the debugger in Visual Studio 6.0 - worthless is a nice word if you were doing ASP. :)

Tom


>I can't find anything on the MS web site that lists what you get in the standard package, so I don't know what you'll be missing. You should call MS and ask them.
>
>If you want to go really inexpensive, you can get the .Net Framework for free and then use a shareware editor like this one:
>http://www.c-point.com/csharp.htm.
>You don't get a nice gui designer, but it will get you started.
>
>
>>Craig, I'm a corporate departmental developer working for a company that won't be moving to NET anytime soon. I have a couple of small outside projects I'm working on (family businesses - and unpaid work at that) and I'd like to do these in .NET, not VFP. These are traditional desktop apps with MSDE as the back end. I want to use a NET front end and use this as an opportunity to start building a skill set with NET.
>>
>>I have a personal VFP license, but no license for VS. The "full" price for VS is over $1M. Ken L. sent a letter around promising discounted upgrade pricing for VFP licensees (to MSDN) for about $790.
>>
>>MS is offering VB.NET and C#.NET for about 100 bucks. How much do you lose
>>by simply picking up one of these boxes? Tools to help build middle tiers?
>>VSS? How critical are the tools I might be missing?
>>
>>I don't want to shoot myself in the foot, but (at the same time) don't want to drop $1M right now when my primary focus is to get my feet wet with the framework in building a couple of small desktop apps.