Is there an edition of VS.NET called 'Standard', as I know there are four editions: VS.NET Enterprise Architect, VS.NET Enterprise Developer, VS.NET Professional and VS.NET Academic (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/productinfo/overview/default.aspx), also the standard editions which includes Visual C# Standard, Visual Basic Standard, Visual C++ Standard and Visual J# Standard.
Anyways, as I still remember that I read once that some project templates are not included with the Standard edition of VS.NET, for example, the Windows Service project template.
Have a look at Larkware's explanation of the new MSDN pricing (where you can see what versions there are): http://www.larkware.com/editorials/vs2005.html
Reginald - IMHO, it's definitely worth it. Thanks,
Visual C# Standard was the edition that we had for 2003. Visual Studio Standard is the version for 2005 that not only includes the other languages, but also includes all the new C# enhancements that we have for 2005. Some of these enhancements include refactoring, code snippets (similar to expansions in 2003), enhanced IntelliSense, debugger visualizers, better code formatting options, Edit and Continue, class designer, and more. Dan Fernandez's article can give you more details regarding his favorite top 10 enhancements:
http://www.ftponline.com/reports/vslivesf/2005/fernandez/
Karen Liu Visual C# IDE
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/productinfo/productline/default.aspx
-Ajay
As soon as VS.NET 2005 is out, I'll be a Standard buyer (don't need a bigger version for now).
What I don't get from your link, is that only VS Team Edition has Office Development Support. If you've checked ".NET programming support" while installing Office, that's all you need to do Office Development. One can even download the DLLs for Office XP legally from MSDN, so how come this feature is stated in the comparison matrix as only available to the big Visual Studio version?
Cheers!
Reginald
P.S. That means that you (MS) have converted a Delphi-programmer to using C#.