>>When it is time for serious development you may have to step up to Visual Studio 7.0.
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>Why is that? I was under the impression that buying VB.NET as a standalone product is like getting VS.NET but limits your language choices. I would think that VB.NET is qualified for serious development.

Mike;

Ken's reference to feature comparison between VB.NET and Visual Studio 7.0 brings me to this conclusion. There are a few things that VS 7.0 allows that I think are important. But I may be the only one who feels that this is true.

"You can see a chart of features in Visual Basic.NET Standard vs. Visual Studio .NET Professional at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/howtobuy/choosing.asp "

Tom