VS .NET 2005 -- Standard vs Professional?

[TheDrider]

I noticed that the Standard version of Studio was missing a few features found in Professional, but I couldn't find a good description detailing those differences.

Specifically, the "User Interface" in Standard has only "Simplified menu options and defaults" where Pro has "Full". Can anyone identify what the different between those two menus actually is?

Standard also does not have SQL Server 2005 Integration. I use Enterprise Manager for my DB development anyway, so this isn't much of an issue.

What compelling reasons are there to get Professional vs Standard?

Many Thanks

 

[chrissie1]

None, but pro has some little things that make live easy.

pro has class-libraries, services, web-services (all this can be done via the command-line compiler).
pro has native support for professional databases (but you don't need this because you are writting your own DAL or use an ORM)
I allready forgot the rest.


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