From: Huw Collingbourne <huw@...>
Date: 2006-09-28T18:25:09+09:00
Subject: Re: what is the best ruby editor?


"Rob ." <rob.02004@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:525df23a0609280201p20677f7do8c4e30ca69c1c3d8@mail.gmail.com...
> Just wasted several clicks trying to find out how much a Visual Studio
> license costs. Gave up eventually. The value of clever proprietary
> IntelliSense is diminished if it's so difficult to figure out how to
> purchase it.

I'm afraid we have nothing to do with how Microsoft sells Visual Studio ;-)

However, the resellers are listed here: 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/howtobuy/

You can also buy VS in most big software stores, or online at places such as 
Amazon.
And for students there are substantial discounts: 
http://www.microsoft.com/education/aerfind.aspx

To be honest, I guess that most of the people who are now using Ruby In 
Steel are existing Visual Studio users who are moving to Ruby. That said, we 
have received quite a few emails from people who've told us that they have 
moved to Visual Studio specifically to use Ruby In Steel, so it works both 
ways, I guess...

best wishes
Huw Collingbourne

http://www.sapphiresteel.com
Ruby Programming In Visual Studio 2005