Any Replacement of Vb.net ?

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Is there any replacement of Vb.net?
Bec's it's licences are costly...
i need any replacement for it that is coming in free of charge..(like---PHP of Wb developer )
Be kind...Please give me a useful Reply...

Posted 23-Jul-11 7:41am

Neeil

Updated 23-Jul-11 7:49am

Manas Bhardwaj

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Philippe Mori 23-Jul-11 15:01pm

For professional developement, you always have to consider the cost of not using the tool or a library. If it takes more time to create the product or if the product is much more limited or less attractive and sell less, then in the end, it might cost far more that the cost of a product like Visual Studio.

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First of all, VB.Net does not have any licencing cost to it. The licencing part comes when you use Visual Studio to build applications.

Secondly, I would think of alternatives in the terms of knowledge my programmers have about certain language/technology. It could be too expensive if your developers do not have solid experience with those technlogies.

Posted 23-Jul-11 7:52am

Manas Bhardwaj

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Sergey Chepurin 23-Jul-11 14:31pm

Could you, please, explain what kind of license we need to build apps in Visual Studio?

Philippe Mori 23-Jul-11 14:51pm

Essentially, when using Visual Studio, you should buy one licence per developer. Similar to Office, Windows OS and most paid softwares (including most third-party libraries).

Philippe Mori 23-Jul-11 14:50pm

And not all tools are created equals... or have a large base of users (lot easier to find answer on the web for commonly used tools and trechnologies)

Sergey Chepurin 23-Jul-11 15:29pm

You talk about licensing for paid versions of VS. I asked because the statement could be understood the way that you can not build apps in free versions of Visual Studio (because you did not buy the license) which is not true. As far as i know, you can build applications in any version of Visual Studio from Express (free) to Ultimate Edition (paid). And all these versions are licensed.

Philippe Mori 23-Jul-11 17:19pm

Effectively, I was thinking you were asking about Visual Studio (paid) and not Visual Studio Express.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Jul-11 1:09am

Correct, my 5. Also, development without any IDE is quite possible. C# and VB.NET comes with .NET Framework.
--SA

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For Windows developement, you have:

Visual Basic 2010 Express[^]

For web developement, you have:
Visual Web Developer 2010 Express[^]

Both of these products are free and are adequate for small to medium applications.

For professional developement, I consider that Visual Studio Professional[^] is a must. It is much more powerful.

For other tools, I don't know. But if you check elsewhere, you have to also consider how much usefull information wou will find on the web and how much productive you can be with the tool you uses.

Posted 23-Jul-11 8:48am

Philippe Mori

Updated 23-Jul-11 8:54am

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[no name] 24-Jul-11 1:27am

SharpDevelop does everything and much more.
http://sharpdevelop.net/opensource/sd/

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Shameel · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-23T07:49:00

Solution 2

You don't need a license to write code in VB.NET. The .NET Framework and the SDK are free tools, you don't have to purchase them. What you need to purchase is Visual Studio, but there are free alternatives like Visual Studio Express edition, SharpDevelop, etc.

Posted 23-Jul-11 7:49am

Shameel

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Manas Bhardwaj 23-Jul-11 13:52pm

+5

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Jul-11 1:06am

Correct. C# and VB.NET comes with every version of .NET Framework for free. It's quite possible to develop without any IDE, just using text editor and compiler and/or MSBuild.
--SA