Visual Basic 6 Professional

[durnurd]

The express editions of Visual studio come with the latest version of .NET 2.0 but you have to download each piece seperately (C# is a seperate download than C++ is seperate from VB)

[bluemonkmn]

Hm. I looked at a few Visual * 2005 Express product reviews on Amazon and didn't see any indication of the products not being powerful.  I must be looking at different products/reviews.  Anyway, durnurd and I did take a look at Visual C# 2005 Express on his computer, and it looks pretty powerful to me.  With a few changes to upgrade SGDK2 to DirectX 9.02, we were able to compile and run SGDK2 and even use the map editor from the code compiled under Visual C# 2005 Express.  I don't see any lack of power in C# Express.  Perhaps it just lacks some of the ASP .NET / Web Development components -- I don't know what else it could be missing because it all seems to be there -- even the wizards and toolboxes for generating and maintaining database connections.  Impressive what they're giving away for free these days.

[sam]

Cool, I would post a link to the review that said it had a lack of power but I can't find it. Anyways, doesn't it say that all the express downloads are 35-70MB? I would download it but it would take way too long to download on my computer. It seems to take an hour for every ten megs. Maybe some day when I get enough amibition and time I will download it. Is there any other way I can get the latest versioin of .NET 2.0?

[durnurd]

Download it over night some time.

[sam]

That'd work, maybe I will.

[bluemonkmn]

I would suggest that if you know anybody with a broadband internet connection and a CD writer, maybe you could ask them the favor of downloading it for you and writing it to CD (or whatever media is handy if it can hold ~70 MB).  But the problem with that is that the download just downloads a 2 MB bootstrap installer that downloads the rest during the installation.  So I guess that won't work; you'll have to start the install at home some evening, wait for the 2 MB download, then choose the install options, let it start downloading the rest, and go to bed.  Too bad they didn't provide an obvious complete download link for this.  But apparently if you install all the features and documentation the size of the download can be as large as 1.3 GB.  But at least that means that if you choose minimum options during install, your install might end up being significantly smaller than 70 MB.

[bluemonkmn]

Ah, here it is, a page with files that a friend with a CD writer could download for you that include everything so you don't have to download more during the install:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/install/

[sam]

Thanks, I'll get it sometime.

[sam]

Hey, I know this is extremely off-topic but hey, just check 'em out: http://www.geocities.com/sam_2d_online/animations.html I made them with Pivot.

[sam]

Anyways, off-topic again, sorry but I have to post this. Ok, I was at the website where I downloaded Pivot ( http://www.geocities.com/peter_bone_uk/software.html ) and there was a link to an MSN group thats all about this program. So I went there and joined and it turns out there is 14,663 members of the group! Who knew stick-figure animation was so popular? Anyways I'm getting a bit better at it, I'm working on an animation with a short little guy spinning around a poll coming out of a wall (like a chin-up pole) and a bunch of people come along that try to kill him (all these stick-men animations are violent, it makes them funny  ) and he wastes all of them...I'm actually making it smooth and putting more time into the physics so it looks real. I think I'm kind of obsessed, it is pretty addictive. Even my "non-computer" sister actually opened up  and used the program while I wasn't there...that's a big step ahead for her  hehe, I'm actually serious.

[durnurd]

Being off topic, why didn't you just start a topic for what you were talking about?

Also: See this: http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/xiaoxiao.html

[sam]

Holy those are amazing  . Anyways, I was gonna start another topic but I felt kind of like an idiot having 5 or 6 topics in a row all started by me. Maybe I still will because I will have tons more animations and stuff. Here's my latest and greatest : http://www.msnusers.com/Pivotanimation/msgattachments/28777 It's not finished yet though...

[sam]

Im downloading Visual Basic 2005 Express now. Its pretty much done. Now I can do some C# work too if i want, because atleast I have the new .NET framework.

[sam]

So...how did you guys learn VBScript?
Can anyone give me some links to good tutorials if you know any.

[sam]

My First VB Program. Form Creator, http://www.geocities.com/sam_2d_online/formcreator.zip. It's not the best and I think I'll add to it if I can learn to do some more things, but I'm proud of this...Yah, I know you VBS masters are laughing as you're reading this...