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Where to Buy Visual Studio
C# Noob
Buy an MSDN subscription online. You'll pay approximately the same price for the MSDN sub level as you would for the included Visual Studio package.
Brad Wilson (dotnetguy.techieswithcats.com)
Definitely - you can get MSDN Universal for around $1300. That also includes just about everything MS makes as well as five developer incidents.
Philo
Developer incidents... had to laugh at this one. Found out the Jet Engine doesn't support bitwise operators this way. Too bad the program was in production and no one even noticed, until I said 'Hey guess what, this doesn't work!'
Beef
Thanks - it looks like MSDN is the way to go. From what I can tell, MSDN Professional is $1199 (-$110 for DVD) while Universal is $2799 (-$300). Can I do better if I don't buy directly from Microsoft?
C# Noob
You can definitely do better not buying from Microsoft. I have, in the past, seen MSDN Universal for ~ $1100.
Brad Wilson (dotnetguy.techieswithcats.com)
You can get Visual Studio for much less than the official Microsoft price. This search on Pricegrabber turned up prices as low as $629:
Robert Jacobson
Take a course at a local college; then you can buy the academic version for a lot cheaper.
Kyralessa
...of course, you can't *use* it for anything...
Philo
>...of course, you can't *use* it for anything...<
Robert Jacobson
When I was a student, I purchased the boxed Academic edition of Visual C++ 6.0 and can confirm that the EULA (as well as the rest of the product) was identical to the Professional version. From that newsgroup post, it looks like this still applies with Visual Studio .NET (though I think they actually add some extra stuff to the Academic edition now?).
SomeBody
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