Another user taking anger out at M$.

[K.I.L.E.R]

My programming teacher told the class the book came with VS.NET 60 day trial, but it didn't.
I've come to the conclusion the University is conspiring with M$ to make students spend up to $2000 on VS.NET.

I can't do my assignments or anything without VS.NET and now my mum's supposed to spend thousands to buy it for 1 year?
WTF?

Damn M$, I swear if Bill Gates comes down to Australia I'm going to hassle him for 50 copies of VS.NET.

Let me just say, my course goes for a year. In other words, the 60 day trial would end well before I get my first assignment.
Then there is the fact I need to do work at home as well with VS.NET.

Can someone give me the cheapest price in aussie currency for VS.NET from a retail store?
Where can I get a second hand copy of VS.NET?

It has to be version .03.

 

[Althornin]

My programming teacher told the class the book came with VS.NET 60 day trial, but it didn't.
I've come to the conclusion the University is conspiring with M$ to make students spend up to $2000 on VS.NET.

I can't do my assignments or anything without VS.NET and now my mum's supposed to spend thousands to buy it for 1 year?
WTF?

Damn M$, I swear if Bill Gates comes down to Australia I'm going to hassle him for 50 copies of VS.NET.

Let me just say, my course goes for a year. In other words, the 60 day trial would end well before I get my first assignment.
Then there is the fact I need to do work at home as well with VS.NET.

Can someone give me the cheapest price in aussie currency for VS.NET from a retail store?
Where can I get a second hand copy of VS.NET?

It has to be version .03.

Well, if your school didnt suck balls, you could get 120day evals for free.
We just set up a MSDN server for our students to use that lets em download all that stuff for free.

 

[Florin]

Don't they have student discount versions anymore when it comes to MS software?

 

[ByteMe]

Where can I get a second hand copy of VS.NET?

Any of the P to P networks.

 

[Tim Murray]

my bro got vs.net for $100...

 

[Zaphod]

$2000? Where do you shop for software?

A quick conversion to AU$ from my local prices - backed up by a quick goggle search - show that an educational lisence for VS.Net shouldn't set you back more than $150. If you need the documentation, I think that will cost about the same.

 

[epicstruggle]

my bro got vs.net for $100...

not sure what version that is, but the proffesional version is selling for 219 on amazon.com

later,
epic
ps not everything is MS's fault. Your Univer/teacher is responsible for what is used to teach you. So blame the real culprits.

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

Price:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/howtobuy/pricing.aspx

Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect:
Full Packaged Product $2,499 US

So I guess it's $2,500 USD, double it and you get roughly the Australian price. I understated the price of VS.NET.

I buy my software from Harvey Norman.

They aren't exactly what most would call cheap.

$219 is dirt cheap.

My mum won't buy it online though.

You're right ES. Why the hell do we have to learn VB.NET?
VB is a bloated language, VB.NET has changes but I still consider it a bloated language.
I can understand code in ASM better than code in VB(literally).

I guess when I buy VS.NET I can learn to use C#.

 

[Zaphod]

I have to ask: Do you keep complaining just for fun of it?

I gave you a link to an Australian site where the Academic/Student version cost $140. The chain even has a physical store in Melbourne, so your mum won't have to shop online. Add roughly 10% additional store markup and you end up at $155, so what's the problem?

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

I have to ask: Do you keep complaining just for fun of it?

I gave you a link to an Australian site where the Academic/Student version cost $140. The chain even has a physical store in Melbourne, so your mum won't have to shop online. Add roughly 10% additional store markup and you end up at $155, so what's the problem?

Thanks.

 

[bloodbob]

Depending on what you ahve to do you could use mono.

 

[Zaphod]

Thanks.

No problem. Didn't mean so come off as grumpy as I did. Lack of caffeine I guess.

I should add though, that if MS do the Academic thingy the same way in AU as in Scandinavia, the 'retail' academic licence does not give you the software OOTB. What you actually buy is a form to be submitted along with proof of eligibility (student ID or similar), a prepaid envelope, and a couple of dead trees worth of MS 'added value' promotional material. The software then comes in the mail, but MS is in my experience reasonably quick with that kind of processing.

 

[epicstruggle]

Price:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/howtobuy/pricing.aspx

Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect:
Full Packaged Product $2,499 US

So I guess it's $2,500 USD, double it and you get roughly the Australian price. I understated the price of VS.NET.

I buy my software from Harvey Norman.

They aren't exactly what most would call cheap.

$219 is dirt cheap.

My mum won't buy it online though.

You're right ES. Why the hell do we have to learn VB.NET?
VB is a bloated language, VB.NET has changes but I still consider it a bloated language.
I can understand code in ASM better than code in VB(literally).

I guess when I buy VS.NET I can learn to use C#.

What im not understanding is what your trying to buy. If your Looking for Visual Basic.Net, then microsoft is selling it for $109 http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/howtobuy/pricing.aspx. If your looking for the whole suite of MS products for developers than yeah its freaking expensive. You dont need that though. Get only what you need.

later,
epic

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

I'm looking for VB.NET but I would like C# in the package as well.

 

[no_way]

I'm looking for VB.NET but I would like C# in the package as well.

One word: Mono

 

[Nite_Hawk]

Wow, I'm suprised that they are actually making you use VS.net. All of my programming courses have been in either c, c++ or java and almost entirely on unix systems. I guess I'm just lucky...

Nite_Hawk

 

[Tim Murray]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...-7599960?v=glance&s=software&n=507846

Visual Studio.net at Amazon--$999

http://www.academicsuperstore.com/m...=632673&qk_srch=632673&id=244325&

Visual Studio.net at my favorite place in the world, academicsuperstore.com--$89

Academic prices rock.

PS--go to your university store. They have software there at academic prices (read: dirt cheap) and there's no mailing or anything like that (if it works like the States). Just show up, grab the box, show your student ID, hand credit card, check, or cash, and leave with vs.net.

 

[Althornin]

Just to re-iterate what i said earlier, check this out:
MSDN Alliance
Thats a server we set up, to handle this stuff for our students.
You school might have something similair.
Some things you can DL, others you can check out. Its all free.

 

[Sxotty]

Well my school sells vicual studio.net for $20.00 I bought it cause it seems like a good price even though I don't really program anymore .


Anyway if you go to a school that has any kind of pull they always have good deals on software, here windows xp is $5, officeXP is $10, and there of course is other stuff I can't think of.

 

[epicstruggle]

Well my school sells vicual studio.net for $20.00 I bought it cause it seems like a good price even though I don't really program anymore .


Anyway if you go to a school that has any kind of pull they always have good deals on software, here windows xp is $5, officeXP is $10, and there of course is other stuff I can't think of.

Same at my university. Although we can also download the thing too.

later,
epic