"VISUAL DATABASE TOOLS:  Design Stored Procedures, Indexes, Tables,
Triggers, User-defined functions, and other database elements visually.  In
the VS.NET Professional Edition, these design capabilities are limited to
the SQL Server Desktop Engine

RAD for the Server:  Access and integrate server administration tools, event
logs, databases, and XML Web services.  Server Explorer and tools
incorporate server-side application components.

Both of these have a Check Mark next to the VS.NET and NONE next to the
VB.NET?

I am just finding it difficult to understand what it is saying:  I want to
be able to grab a table from the SQL Server Database and drop it onto Form1
and have a DataAdapter appear and be able to use all the parameters
associated the the Data Provider and the Connection String in SQLClient.

Thanks,

Charles A. Lackman

Charles,

I empathize with you about the unclear descriptions of the various MS
developer products.

I have VB.NET Standard, and I'm not 100% sure what it doesn't have, but I
can tell you that it DOES have the "Server Explorer". I can grab tables and
drop them onto forms as you describe. I don't have the full SQL Server but
it seems to work with MSDE and Access databases (although now I prefer to do
it programmatically anyway), and I can't imagine that it would not work with
SQL Server.

The things that are missing from my version that most tempt me to upgrade
are:
No Crystal Reports (if you want to make database apps, you need a reporting
tool)
No ability to create class libraries

Patrick