For the past couple of years I’ve been developing in C# under .NET (most of the time) which is [almost] classic object-oriented programming. During that period I had to do some PHP4 development from time to time which is very simplistic and a little strange OOP. Now I’m working on SPAW 2 and do some JavaScript OOP which is even crazier. And at this moment I have to switch among the three a couple of times each day. I’m scared my brain is going to explo!%%^*

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We’ve been members of Microsoft Empower ISV program for couple of years and now when our membership is over we needed to buy a copy of Visual C# 2003 Standard Edition. It wasn’t a surprise that you can’t buy 2003 editions of VS .NET these days but fortunately you can downgrade 2005 editions. So we bought VS 2005 Standard Edition and called Microsoft Lithuania to get a disk kit for 2003.

First of all the call was answered by some latvian or estonian guy (I couldn’t distinguish the accent for sure) and he offered to speak in Russian or English. Kind of strange but not a problem. After I have explained the issue he said that we do have a right for downgrade but Microsoft can’t help us get the disk kit and he could only suggest that we “get it somewhere”. I wanted to ask if it’s okay to download it from bittorrent or edonkey network but you know you most likely can’t get such a “low-end” version over there. It’s always “Enterprise architect” cause you know if you steal anyway why steal sh*t?

I’m sort of lost here. Where do we get that disk kit?