Visual Studio .NET Disabled

[DarkVirus]

What purpose do you have for switching to Visual Studio .net? So many factors make it yucky! I'm learning vb.net (I'm a vb6.0 programmer of ~5 years) and there are too many changes, good and bad, that make Vb6.0 much more appetizing than vb.net. If you can give me a really good reason besides just wanting to add it to your large notebook of pirated cds (Yea we all have one   ) then maybe someone can give you a hand in locating it. If not I suggest spending the $1500.00 + to buy a legit copy.

[Hitmen]

I could maybe send it to you; the guy I got it from was a wierdo though. It's broken into two parts and those parts broken into over a thousand 1.38 meg zips and two exe's that extract from all of them. So.. I zipped the entire thing. It's 1.5 gigs so if you want it expect it to take a long time.

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

My VB.NET cost $100.

VB.NET takes out everything you like about your old VB, but makes a lot of non-VB'ers like VB more.

BTW I'd be interested in that crack...my full version .NET RC is restricted

[Hitmen]

* Hitmen is thinking of a good way to send it...

Well, I could probably turn IIS back on, but cable's upstream sucks so don't expect more than a ~30KB/sec download. And at 1.5 gigs that's a loooong time.

Edit: I love how the windows 2000 disk says "Do not make illegal copies of this CD".
Yes, I'm sure people listen to that

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

No I've got the DVD

[l)ragon]

There's a way around it but it's expensive compared to being free.

~l)ragon

[Skywing]

do you really think changing the date can fool *MICROSOFT*?!

They make lots of silly mistakes. Ever tried installing Office 2000 Upgrade without having anything to upgrade from? It's really easy.

Or that they don't see it as much of an issue.

Especially for something like Office, that gets used for a lot of work-related things, it's the large companies with lots of money (as opposed to individual users) who are buying copies.  These companies probably aren't going to try and pirate it, because they'll typically have deep enough pockets for it to be (profit-wise) worth filing a lawsuit against them for software piracy.

[Dark-Feanor]

My problem is not that I dont have the software, it is just that when I open it, I get a message that it has been disabled since date x.

[WinSocks]

VB.Net just suck in general they made it seem like your too stupid to program, automatically adding source for you, some o fit may be conveinent but alot of it you end up deleting anyways, VB 6.0 much better and i'm better at it.

Besides them changing the code and taking out some Functions that were in other VB Versions it more Web Based, which i find is disturbing....

btw anyone get to check out LongHorn yet?

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

VB.Net just suck in general they made it seem like your too stupid to program, automatically adding source for you, some o fit may be conveinent but alot of it you end up deleting anyways, VB 6.0 much better and i'm better at it.

Besides them changing the code and taking out some Functions that were in other VB Versions it more Web Based, which i find is disturbing....

btw anyone get to check out LongHorn yet?

I've found it to be opposite; it assumes you know object-orientented programming pretty deeply, and requires knowledge of the .NET library.

[Grok]

Especially for something like Office, that gets used for a lot of work-related things, it's the large companies with lots of money (as opposed to individual users) who are buying copies.  These companies probably aren't going to try and pirate it, because they'll typically have deep enough pockets for it to be (profit-wise) worth filing a lawsuit against them for software piracy.

Plus the price is no big deal.  $1500 per developer for a enterprise license is no big deal.  Figure an average of $65000 per year salary, $2000 computer, $250 for Windows 2000, $500 for Office 2000, $5000 for 3rd party software tools I won't bother describing for this crowd, maybe $1250 for the desk, and $12/sqft per month for the floor space.  Toss in 38% worth of company benefits and you're talking $100k+ per year per developer.  You only have to buy Visual Studio once every 5 years.  It's a drop in the bucket.

[Noodlez]

do you really think changing the date can fool *MICROSOFT*?!

Yes.

Some of us do use pirated software, but if we do it's usually kept to ourselves (we don't share information or anything about it)... We're kids (for the most part) and do not have money, but that doesn't give us the right to download everything we can find. I've bought all the games I play, Windows, and use freeware where possible.

I guess I came off a little harsh, you couldn't really know the ethics of a place without being around it for awhile.

shut up and put some <sarcasm> tags around my quote