Re: What would I have to pay for VC++ 2010 Pro in Germany?
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Originally Posted by
Philaty
I use the ******** often to find out a realistic market price of things I plan to buy.
So it could happen that companys have an insolvency and than they offer it as a used facility on that platform.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think I can find upgrade packages there. I suppose it is simply technically impossible to sell them separately, and even if it was possible I suppose it to be pretty illegal. ;)
OTOH, a company going bankrupt might even sell a full version at a price below the usual upgrade. :ehh:
I have no experience with any auction platform at all. But when finally looking at the concerns that ahmd issued in post #15, I pretty much consider not to give it a try at all. :(
I think the probability of getting pirated stuff on such a platform is particularly high for stuff as new as VS 2010. ;)
Ah, and... Welcome to CG! :D
Re: What would I have to pay for VC++ 2010 Pro in Germany?
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In my tests I was linking to MFC statically to avoid proving DLLs. Change to that and see the size then.
It just so happens that I also have VS 2005 and VS 2008, so I did a comparison between the three. The conditions: Console program with MFC with static linking, no additional code to what was automatically generated. Here are the sizes of the executables:
VS 2005: Debug: 2.12 MB; Release: 184 KB
VS 2008: Debug: 1.804 MB; Release: 206 KB
VS 2010: Debug: 5.982 MB; Release: 1.584 MB
My VS 2008 is without the feature pack. It looks as if Microsoft actually did some work on the C++ (and ESPECIALLY the MFC) components of VS 2010. What did Microsoft do for C++ and MFC between VS 2005 and VS 2008?...not so much if you use the relative sizes of their dlls as a measure. About a week or so ago I was poking through the VS 2010 documentation, and I recall seeing dozens (well over a 100) of new classes in the MFC hierarchy diagram. Bearing this out is the size difference between MFC100.dll, which is 4.241 MB, and the other two MFC dlls (MFC90.dll is 1.130 MB, and MFC80.dll is 1.080 MB).
As you can see, the MFC100.dll is nearly 4x greater than the other two.
Re: What would I have to pay for VC++ 2010 Pro in Germany?
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spiritualfields
What did Microsoft do for C++ and MFC between VS 2005 and VS 2008?
It all came in VS 2008 SP1, so if you install it your code will have all that added bulk of new MFC attached to it, plus your MFC stuff won't run on anything earlier than Windows XP. So keep that in mind.
I'm more and more inclined to have VS 2008 w/o SP1 and VS 2010 installed at the same time... It just costs so much more! I bet Microsoft wanted us to do exactly that.
Re: What would I have to pay for VC++ 2010 Pro in Germany?
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I'm more and more inclined to have VS 2008 w/o SP1 and VS 2010 installed at the same time... It just costs so much more! I bet Microsoft wanted us to do exactly that.
I ended up like that by luck because I hadn't done any real programming since around 2002 but had still kept up with the Visual Studio versions, just not installing the service packs because I wasn't programming anyway. Then about a month ago I got an idea for another program. The timing was perfect because the VS 2010 upgrade is selling for $299 on the Microsoft store online. That's a no-brainer purchase.
