-- Posted by osmoticdespair at 7:38 pm on July 31, 2004 I had vb at school and had loads of fun making crappy little programs with it. Anyone know if there is a free version I can use at home? My dad said he'd steal a copy from work but he borrowed the wrong disk (it was a huge fucking programming manual for about 10 different languages instead) -- Posted by sakurag at 12:43 am on Aug. 1, 2004 I do not know of a free version, but while at Barnes and Noble the other day, I noticed one of the VB books came with a free copy of visual basic .Net.  You may want to look into that.  I'm not sure the price of the book though. -- Posted by BBallAsh23 at 8:04 pm on Aug. 2, 2004 Quote: from sakurag at 3:43 am on Aug. 1, 2004 I do not know of a free version, but while at Barnes and Noble the other day, I noticed one of the VB books came with a free copy of visual basic .Net.  You may want to look into that.  I'm not sure the price of the book though. i was in barnes and nobels today! :D  :p -- Posted by mephisto mortis at 5:26 pm on Sep. 3, 2004 im sure there is some sort of open source version, downloadable on this vast internet, but usually open source means its for linux (of course thats no problem for me) -- Posted by ckings6056 at 3:46 am on Dec. 8, 2004 Just download visual studio off of IRC. Simple.