That's what I'm saying; since dreamspark licenses never expire, I'll use that (I'm not making money from development anyway and don't plan to, so who cares?), until I can afford the professional version at what is it, $499 or something?
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Hurd Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 10:53 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Visual studio and SharpDevelop: who uses which on this list and why? On 4 May 2013 11:14, David Burstin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 04/05/2013 11:25 AM, "Tristan Reeves" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> "full featured" meaning, um, not full featured. Or at least not if >> you consider having any plugin work with VS a "feature". LOL. Ah >> Microsoft, gotta love 'em. > > <rant> > Yeah. Gotta love that they provide an excellent development > environment at a fair price and then provide a free version that also > gives a great development experience. Or did you want the free version > to be exactly the same as the paid version? > > This whole freetard sense of entitlement gives me the sh*ts. > </rant> I agree with David's rant, though I do also see Tristan issue, in that the free version is clearly nobbled because you can't access the expansion points that are clearly still there. -- Regards, Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.)(Hons.)
