I'm thinking of upgrading from VB6 Pro to Visual Studio.NET.  However, it
looks like buying MSDN Professional is in some ways a better value as I'll
get everything in VS.NET plus other goodies to learn/experiment/develop for.
Anyone here opt for MSDN instead of VS.NET?

If you're referring to the MSDN cds for vb6, then I recommend that over
subscribing to MSDN on the internet. Basicly because you can access the cds
with more ease and it's a one-time payment (or none at all).

Regards,
Paul

If you've got the bucks .. go for the msdn.
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Randy Birch
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 > The universal subscription provides
 > enough CDs for all the coasters and
 > mobiles you could ever want!)

Er, Randy, I think you got the name wrong. Isn't that the Intergalactic
Subscription? :-) I can't imagine a single individual possibly being
competent in all the disparate products included in that package.

 > If you've got the bucks .. go for
 > the msdn.

How much is it, now, in United Planets Credits? In the tradition of the
"euro", those are know as "uplos", as I recall.

no idea <g>.  Was around $2500 US/year.

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There are a mess of apps in that package, that's for sure.  But if you're a
serious corporate developer making wide use of ms technologies and need
development versions of backoffice, NT, transaction and commerce servers,
dev and productivity tools the universal package certainly make a compelling
purchase considering the individual costs of the development products
needed.

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 > There are a mess of apps in that
 > package, that's for sure.  But if you're
 > a serious corporate developer making
 > wide use of ms technologies and need
 > development versions of backoffice, NT,
 > transaction and commerce servers,
 > dev and productivity tools the universal
 > package certainly make a compelling
 > purchase considering the individual costs
 >of the development products
 > needed.

I did subcontract work for a fellow who subscribed, but even with four of us
on the development team, and even so, we didn't come close to using all the
products in the package. Even so, he considered it a bargain, considering
just the cost of the Windows 2000 Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio
Enterprise, and Office.

I had my own Office Developer on my notebook, but did use the server
development databases he set up on the server machine. (Well, I confess, I
had my own Visual Studio Enterprise, too, but wasn't using it on those
projects. I was doing Access clients and some server database Views.)