Visual Studio .net 2003 for students, legit?

[McBainUK]

Want to get back into personal programming again and what better way to do it then contribute to the excellent GB-PVR

Been looking around for prices for a copy of Visual Studio .net and found this:

http://thespoke.net/Software/

Claims to offer students a copy of Visual Studio .net 2003 for only $25!

Is it legit? Is it a limited version in some way? I don't know but I'm hoping one of you lovely people do.

Please respond

[Spartan]

Why not just download this? It's legit AND free:

Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition Beta Products

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/

EDIT: 2005 is supposed to be released officially next month (late October, maybe?)

[reven]

what kind of student are you? if youre a uni student chances are your university will supply you with a free copy (mine does at least). i got a crap load of free software from uni.

[McBainUK]

Thanks Spartan. Gona give the Express edtion.

I'm from Portsmouth Uni in the UK. Lucky you reve, free software from my uni is about as likely as free beer

Cant wait to get programming again

[McBainUK]

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...ghlight=VB

Seems VS Express uses .net 2.0 so this wont work with GB-PVR. Is this right?

[reven]

yeah gbpvr uses 1.1, 2.0 doesnt work.

[McBainUK]

Ok I'm going down the SharpDevelop route for now. Any suitable plugin source that I could take a look at?

[reven]

dvdripper is a simple enough plugin, i would start there.

[McBainUK]

Ok I took the plunge and paid £20 for thespoke.net student membership. Over a week later, (the payment system is a bit shocking), I now have access to loads of MS software. Thought it would just be VS.net but it's all of these too!

• Access 2003
  
• OneNote 2003
  
• Project Professional 2003
  
• SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition
  
• Virtual PC 2004
  
• Visio Professional 2003
  
• Visual J# .NET
  
• Visual SourceSafe 6.0d
  
• Visual Studio .NET 2003 Academic - Full Download
  
• Visual Studio .NET 2003 Academic - Full Install CD
  
• Visual Studio .NET Academic 2003 - ISO Images
  
• Visual Studio .NET Academic Student Tools 2003
  
• Visual Studio .NET Academic Teaching Tools 2003
  
• Windows 2000 Advanced Server (with SP4)
  
• Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
  
• Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
  
• Windows XP Professional (Single User) x64bit Edition
  
• Windows XP Professional with SP2 (Single User) ISO Image
  

Currently downloading the VS.net ISO's. Will post how the installation goes.

[McBainUK]

I can confirm that the student deals on thespke.net are legit

I have just installed VS 2003 and am busy coding plugins while waiting for the MSDN iso's to download.