MS Visual Studio .net 5.0

[Former Member]

Dear all

While upgrading our mobile 4.0 to 5.0/2007 the 2005 visual studio is said to be a mandatory prerequisite. Does this mean we need to buy a license for this? If so, is it possible to use the ms vs .net 2008 as well as the 2005 version seems to be difficult to get?

Regards, Kai

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Kai,

It is necessary to use Visual Studio 2005(if you move to 5.0 SP09 or above) as there is a framework change to 2.0(.net framework 2.0).Hence it is mandatory.With regards to VS 2008 testing is still going on. Professional edition should do the trick for you.

Thanks,

Abishek

[Former Member]

Hi Kai,

yes, you will need to buy a license for the studio. In the install guide for 2007 SP2 it is mentioned that the following versions are supported:

Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2005 (Professional or Enterprise Edition)

Until 5.0 SP8 only version 2003 was supported. As it was quite obvious that even between 2003 an 2005 there was a big difference (concerning stability, plugin etc) I guess that 2008 won't work at all. At least it is not supported officially by SAP so far. Maybe Ankan can confirm this.

Regards,

Wolfhard

[Former Member]

Hi Wolfhard

Thanks for the reply. Can you shine a light on which version I should buy? The professional is clear, but I can choose only between standard, professional and team suite, but not the 'Enterprise' which is mentioned in the upgrade guide. And since the pro version is quite a bit expensive is there a download / restricted test version also available to start with?

Regards, Kai

PS: Is it necessary to buy an EN version or would a DE version work fine as well?

Edited by: Kai Blanke on Sep 17, 2008 1:22 PM

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have an installation of the professional version of studio .NET 2005 but honestly spoken I also don't have seen an enterprise version so far...

Whether standard version is enough I also don't have tested - maybe an (official) OSS message would help and give security.

In any case I would prefer the english version, not the german one.

Regards,

Wolfhard

[Former Member]

Hi Wolfhard

Thanks so far. Apparently one has to buy the 2008 version and with the license key one can download the former version from MS as well -> 2.9 GB

The standard version is not sufficient according to the upgrade guide, so unfortunately we need to spend three times the money for the pro version ...

Regards, Kai

[Former Member]

Hi,

this is even a bigger rip-off as SAP is doing... )

The main reason for moving from SAP-MAS to MS-Studio was that VB6 is not longer supported, therefore it has to be migrated to VB.NET.

And as I already mentioned there are some inconsistencies and incompatibilities between MS studio .NET 2003/2005 und most likely also 2008.

Regards,

Wolfhard