Visual Studio .NET Pricing Question

[irasmith]

I am looking into moving up from my VB.NET Standard to Visual Studio .NET Professional or perhaps Developer.

I looked at some prices earlier in the year and saw Professional going for over $1,000. When I check back now on AtomicPark.com Professional is going for $644.

Is there some sort of special pricing going on that I dont know about or perhaps prices are dropping due to perhaps a 2004 edition coming out soon?

Just checking to see what peoples thoughts are on this and to see if anyone has any experience with buying from atomicpark.com or if anyone has a better supplier to offer up.

 

[samsmithnz]

Hve you compared it too Ebay and Amazon.com?

 

[irasmith]

I have looked at Amazon as actually that is the first place that I thought of trying.

From all the searching that I did on Amazon though, it would seem they themselves arent selling this product at this time. In their listing of this product there is the links to buy from outside sources and I checked a few of them out. At the time I looked at those there was a mixture of upgrade and academic versions to acquire but neither qualify for me as I am a first time buyer who is not in the academic world.

Ive also done several searches on ebay as I realize that offerings vary all the time just depending on who has what to sell. What I found there was also the same situation really, either it was an upgrade or an academic version being sold.

I do thank you for the suggestions though. I still havent purchased yet as I keep exploring my options. Im pretty new to .NET and so right now I am still using the VB.NET standard package that I bought in early spring. Its a good learning tool for sure.

 

[samsmithnz]

Personally I brought an adademic version, even though I was years out of Uni. I was however between jobs and it was a learning experience to me, so I think it was justified for me to do that. Ive since Aquired a .NET development job that I never would have got. And there was no way I could have afforded the full price VS studio.

The only comment I have is be wary about offerings on Ebay and Amazon.com (marketplace). Quite often Ive seen people trying to sell academic version that are worth $70- 100 for hundreds more, as they try to pass them off as professional versions.

Good luck!

Sam

 

[irasmith]

I do thank you for your input and advise.

I am still looking, havent purchased yet. Actually holding off until the Christmas shopping is done before making a commitment to the software purchase.

I will keep on the lookout for sources before I buy. I am still using my VB.Net standard edition I have as a learning tool. Im actually looking forward to moving on up to the full blown edition that is within the studio professional edition.