Whats the difference

[Daniel]

Not sure if this is the group to post this question, but here it goes....

I just got a new laptop at work and they loaded the following 2
applications:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003

Arent they both the same thing, only 2005 is the latest?

 

[Alex Meleta]

Hi Daniel,

Each version of Visual Studio is tied for a different version of .NET

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 is for .NET 2.0 and is's latest release of
Visual Studios
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 is for .NET 1.1

Regards, Alex Meleta
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[Scott M.]

If you were going to develop something from scratch, use 2005. If you need
to work with a .NET 1.1 project, use 2003.

BE WARNED: If you open a 2003 project in 2005, it will be converted to a
2005 project and you won't be able to work with it in 2003 any longer, so
make a backup of any 2003 projects before opening them in 2005.

 

[Daniel]

thank you

If you were going to develop something from scratch, use 2005. If you
need to work with a .NET 1.1 project, use 2003.

BE WARNED: If you open a 2003 project in 2005, it will be converted to a
2005 project and you won't be able to work with it in 2003 any longer, so
make a backup of any 2003 projects before opening them in 2005.