HI. well, the in class exercises and examples, are the lecturers, and had a look on the hard disk and on the cd. well, that is what he says. and think will only work in 2005. cheers Marvin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:15 AM Subject: RE: visual basic dot net 2005 esxpress Your instructor is a fool. They should work fine in 2008. There is not that big a language wise in VB .net 2005 and 2008. The errors your having are most likely typing errors. Ken -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marvin Hunkin Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 3:21 AM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: visual basic dot net 2005 esxpress Hi. got a whole heap of examples, for my programming class, exercises,a nd did them in vb dot net 2005. but converted them to all vb dot net 2008, but some of them are not working and got errors. did e-mail my lecturer, and he says, that the book they are using in class is for vb dot net 2005, and i am using 2008. so, where can i download vb dot net 2005 express, and also is there a conversion utility to convert from vb.dot net 2008 to 2005, as a whole of a lot of exercises i did for the chapter book examples and some of the exercises and case studies, in vb dot net 2008, and do not have time to go and recreate them in vb dot net 2005, if i can get my hands on a copy? have tried searching on google, and went to the msdn site, but tried looking, but cannot find any thing at all. got any ideas? cheers Marvin. __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind