[Year 12 Its] VB.NEt Pricing

[Frank Van Den Boom]

Frank - I went through this process mid year. MSDN Academic license is
the way to go.It is a low cost option and good value. It also allows you
to provide the software for students to use at home. 

http://www.microsoft.com/australia/education/msdn/msdnacademicalliance/d
efault.aspx
<http://www.microsoft.com/australia/education/msdn/msdnacademicalliance/
default.aspx> .

Regarding stability - I had all those hassles as well. It is a
combination of getting the config right and a bit of experience.

We had to make the following changes to individual PC's for file i/o and
even some keyboard i/o (eg Inputbox) to work. This can be incorporated
into the standard PC setup.

Control Panel/Administrative Tools/MS NET Framework 2.0 Config/Configure
Code Access Security Policy/Adjust Zone Security/Make Changes to this
computer/... then change All Zones to Full Trust

You can probably just apply this to a couple of the zones, but I had to
solve it quickly and did not test the minimum requirment.

Frank


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From: is-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:is-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
Behalf Of Frank Merlino
Sent: Saturday, 9 September 2006 6:44 PM
To: is at edulists.com.au
Subject: [Year 12 Its] VB.NEt Pricing


Hello Colleagues,
We are in the budgeting phase for 2007. I am currently using vb.net
express. I am wondering if anyone knows anything about pricing for
priviate schools for vb.net whe I presume the express version is no
longer free.
 
Currently, for our school to get vb.net we would have to purchase the
full visual studio suite at just over $100 per license. has anyone
delved into the MSDN Academic Alliance? 
 
On another topic, how stable have people using vb,.net express found it
on their student systems? In my class of 26 years 9/10 students, we find
the product reasonably stable but some students get some strange system
errors occasionally (strange I suppoose because of the cryptic way the
application reports errors)...of course our system protection mechanisms
would not have anything to do with that....would they...??
 
Regards,
	<mailto:is at edulists.com.au> 	
 
Frank Merlino
Technology Faculty Co-ordinator, Website manager
St. Joseph's College
Newtown, Geelong,
Victoria, Australia
Phone: 03 52268100
Fax: 03 52216983
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