Visual C# .NET Standard edition - missing features
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Hello! I'm a computer science student and want to start coding with Visual Studio .Net in C#. As I want to use my Apps commercially, the Student-licence doesn't seem to be usefull for me. On the other hand I doesn't have the money to buy the professional version of .NET. And I don't nedd any Server things or other languages than C#. So The Visual C# .NET Standard edition seems to be the right thing for me. So I looked at the comparison-table at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/howtobuy/choosing.asp and there it says, that NOT supported are: -Class Libraries Create reusable class library components using the Class Library template Does that mean, I cannot program class libraries?!? Or is only the template missing? -Windows Control Libraries Construct custom user interface controls for Windows Forms using the Windows Control Library template. The same question: Does that mean, I cannot program custom control libraries, or is only the template missing? If you have any serious warnings NOT to buy this edition, please let me know. Mario
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Hello! I'm a computer science student and want to start coding with Visual Studio .Net in C#. As I want to use my Apps commercially, the Student-licence doesn't seem to be usefull for me. On the other hand I doesn't have the money to buy the professional version of .NET. And I don't nedd any Server things or other languages than C#. So The Visual C# .NET Standard edition seems to be the right thing for me. So I looked at the comparison-table at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/howtobuy/choosing.asp and there it says, that NOT supported are: -Class Libraries Create reusable class library components using the Class Library template Does that mean, I cannot program class libraries?!? Or is only the template missing? -Windows Control Libraries Construct custom user interface controls for Windows Forms using the Windows Control Library template. The same question: Does that mean, I cannot program custom control libraries, or is only the template missing? If you have any serious warnings NOT to buy this edition, please let me know. Mario
Mario, I bought the standard version as well and ran into the same issues you have. There are quiet a few templates that are missing. However, after doing some searches, MS has claimed that they inadvertently left of some of the templates in the standard edition and will be providing an update (Not sure which templates they are referring to). With that said some people have found ways to add various templates back in. Here is a link for the class library template. It works great. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang\_en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&th=1610d3f841479209&rnum=1 In response to your questions, you can create libraries and controls, it's just a manual process. The templates make things much easier