Got Visual Basic .net standard edition through the post this morning. It took a lot less time to arrive from the supplier than it did to instal the thing (which has an estimated 2 hours and 20 minutes to go) and I started this at 9am this morning – 5 hours ago! I am not impressed with the installation routine, which decided that I must have frontpage extensions loaded on my webserver (so that took some time to install off another cd) and then I needed to install all the critical updates. Once this had been done, I got to the “yes i agree to your lousy eula notice”. Underneath that was a box to type in the serial number. Whoever designed this box was not thinking of laptop screens as the background of the form was almost the same colour as the spaces to fill in the details. As a result I wasn’t sure where to start entering the data and I actually started in the wrong field…and I’m sure you all know how annoying those 20 digit serial numbers are to type in. VB then decides it needs 500MB on my system drive (why???) and another 1.7GB on a data partition, so i had to install Partition magic to change the size of my drives, reboot and start the install again ARGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH