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For those of you who might be able to use this, I quote:

Free Not-For-Resale Copy of Visual Basic .NET 2003 Standard Edition*

Welcome to VB at the Movies. The 101 short films below will provide everybody from the beginner through the advanced developer with an opportunity to amp up their Visual Basic skills. In true studio fashion, we?re releasing two categories each week, so check back often to catch the latest releases.

Let us know what you think. View and rate five movies, then sign up to receive your redemption code e-mail entitling you to a complimentary Not-For-Resale copy of Visual Basic .NET 2003 Standard Edition.*

Grab your popcorn and soda, sit back and enjoy!b>

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/atthemovies/

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it started more than a week ago... i posted about this on another forum on the 6th of this month... so it started some time before then

these are my thoughts on it

a gimmick by microsoft to try and entice people to give them their names and addresses, so they can tie IP addresses to people... then cross reference those ips and ip ranges to the illegal cd keys that are used to access windows update and such....

MS doesnt just give away free software with no alterior motives... what does VB.NET Std go for, $300? sure theyve already got 50 billion dollars but as they try to profit on everything else giving stuff away for free doesnt seem too legit

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these are my thoughts on it

a gimmick by microsoft to try and entice people to give them their names and addresses, so they can tie IP addresses to people... then cross reference those ips and ip ranges to the illegal cd keys that are used to access windows update and such....

MS doesnt just give away free software with no alterior motives... what does VB.NET Std go for, $300? sure theyve already got 50 billion dollars but as they try to profit on everything else giving stuff away for free doesnt seem too legit

OK, what is it with the damned conspiracy theories? :blink: Get a grip man! :wacko:

Why can't they "just give away free software with no ulterior motives?" :huh:

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OK, what is it with the damned conspiracy theories? :blink: Get a grip man! :wacko:

Why can't they "just give away free software with no ulterior motives?" :huh:

Actually i think the motive for MS actually is to get developers changing and starting with .NET

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MS is trying to turn people to use its .net instead of java. the only way they can do this effectively is by giving it away for free and abusing their richness. and this wont stop them from turnjing out a profit on vs.net in the longrun because it will make people buy their newer versions.

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Actually i think the motive for MS actually is to get developers changing and starting with .NET

OK, but if I was a java developer, I wouldn't just instantly convert everything to .NET unless I liked .NET more than java and thought it would be worth my time/money. Microsoft is basically just showing developers the .NET platform; I see nothing wrong with that. Sun probably does the same thing in a different way.

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OK, but if I was a java developer, I wouldn't just instantly convert everything to .NET unless I liked .NET more than java and thought it would be worth my time/money. Microsoft is basically just showing developers the .NET platform; I see nothing wrong with that. Sun probably does the same thing in a different way.

if i was a java developer and i only programed in the Windows environemtn, ill convert very tid bit to .NET lol... java's slow, and i hate it

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from what ive heard, .net is worth the time and money. longhorn willl pretty much require .net. sidebar tiles are .net i believe and im sure that if a prog wants to me integrated into the sidebar or the contacts database, it will have to use .net also.

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from what ive heard, .net is worth the time and money. longhorn willl pretty much require .net. sidebar tiles are .net i believe and im sure that if a prog wants to me integrated into the sidebar or the contacts database, it will have to use .net also.

Ummmm don't quote me on this, but isn't the entire Windows API for Longhorn, going to be essentially turned to the .NET API, so in other words, it's going to be entirely integrated into Windows.

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from what ive heard, .net is worth the time and money. longhorn willl pretty much require .net. sidebar tiles are .net i believe and im sure that if a prog wants to me integrated into the sidebar or the contacts database, it will have to use .net also.

sure .net's great, but Visual Basic.... naah :pinch:

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sure .net's great, but Visual Basic.... naah :pinch:

why do you say that?

im jsut wondering cause i want to know what to expect when my copy gets here.

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Well, if it's anything like my copy of VB.net Studio 2k2, it's got a lot of built-in functions, a fairly friendly gui, and lots of help files that'll get you nowhere. VB.net is pretty simple to learn, though. Once you get used to the layout it's pretty darn easy. The biggest part is that all the visual stuff, such as the window layout, can be changed from a design page rather then the code. VB6 programmers will have an easy crossover.

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it started more than a week ago... i posted about this on another forum on the 6th of this month... so it started some time before then

these are my thoughts on it

a gimmick by microsoft to try and entice people to give them their names and addresses, so they can tie IP addresses to people... then cross reference those ips and ip ranges to the illegal cd keys that are used to access windows update and such....

MS doesnt just give away free software with no alterior motives... what does VB.NET Std go for, $300? sure theyve already got 50 billion dollars but as they try to profit on everything else giving stuff away for free doesnt seem too legit

$300? more like $99 for vb.net standard

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sure .net's great, but Visual Basic.... naah :pinch:

you haven't used VB for a while have you? it's been completely overhauled for .NET

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Ummmm don't quote me on this, but isn't the entire Windows API for Longhorn, going to be essentially turned to the .NET API, so in other words, it's going to be entirely integrated into Windows.

Not really. .NET will be a first-class citizen in Longhorn; meaning that there aren't the sort of penalties that there are now for running a .NET application. But it's still a bolt-on runtime. The Win32 API (or a superset thereof) will still be around, and on the backend, a great deal of the CLR will still be calling native API functions in order to do the actual work. The amount of work that the CLR does on its own is growing, but it's going to be years before .NET is "entirely integrated" into Windows.

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The Win32 API (or a superset thereof) will still be around

Of course.. there would have to be.. imagine the class action lawsuit if MS instantly made every piece of windows software in existance unable to run because they removed the API that they are built on.....

sure, things phase out, such as 16 bit programs for windows 3.1... but 16 bit still runs on 32bit platforms in most cases.... so Win32 stuff will still have to run on the next generation of operating systems... the world isnt ready i dont think for an overhaul where every single piece of win32 software would have to be recoded and recompiled to run on the new operating systems

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