Visual Studio .NET Academic vs. Standard

[wjsulliv]

So is there anything I can't do with Visual Studio .NET Professional Academic? Is there any reason that I should pay for Visual Studio .NET Standard?

I got academic free last year but haven't installed it yet and now I need it for class...

 

[Adrian Tung]

If I'm not mistaken, the only thing that you can't do with the academic version is developing something and making a profit out of it.


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[wjsulliv]

So I can't create a deployment? Or I can but its against microsoft user agreement?

 

[Gaunt]

I'm fairly sure you can do everything, it's really only the licensing that's an issue.

 

[ComradeXavier]

The basic idea of the academic version, if I remember the license agreement correctly, is that you can do anything with the software EXCEPT actually release it. You can write, debug, etc., as long as you don't distribute the result, ESPECIALLY as long as you don't PROFIT from it.

(it'd be an interesting solution for a software company: have a hundred developers use the academic version, then use one licensed copy to make the final build 😉 MS probably wouldn't like that)

 

[tritium4ever]

Originally posted by: ComradeXavier
The basic idea of the academic version, if I remember the license agreement correctly, is that you can do anything with the software EXCEPT actually release it. You can write, debug, etc., as long as you don't distribute the result, ESPECIALLY as long as you don't PROFIT from it.

(it'd be an interesting solution for a software company: have a hundred developers use the academic version, then use one licensed copy to make the final build 😉 MS probably wouldn't like that)

Problem with that is that those hundred developers must all be students. How many companies are made out of students?! 😀

 

[Bluga]

Can Visual Studio.NET compile Java?

 

[wjsulliv]

No I don't think it compiles Java considering j++ caused a lawsuit... Micrsoft has introduced C# which is supposed to be the best of both Java and C++... But I haven't used it at all.

It appears that the install is like 3 gig? Is that right?