Difference between Studio and .NET Standard?

[KellyR]

Hi,

Not a technical question, but I'm thinking about trying to publish one of my games soon, and I need to get some software licenses in order before then. I've used Visual Studio 6.0 for most of my work, but I want to use .NET for the rest. The cheapest I can find is Visual C++ .NET 2003. What I'm wondering is, how is this different from Visual Studio? All I really need is the compiler and I guess the resource editor although I could do without that if I had to. Does Visual C++ .NET 2003 have basically the same environment, with debugger compiler and resource/class views? Or is it somehow stripped down?

Thanks!!

[Andreas Masur]

Well...the difference between Visual C++ .NET and Visual Studio .NET is simply that the latter one brings other languages (like C#, Visual Basic .NET) with it while the former one is simply limited to C++.

Furthermore, if you do not need the IDE itself, you can download the Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/)....

[KellyR]

Excellent, thank you very much!

[Andreas Masur]

You are welcome...