OT: haskell, .net, microsoft and vs

[Nigel Perry]

At 11:03 am -0300 7/8/02, Andre Santos wrote:
>I believe that in order to integrate Haskell (or any other language)
>into VisualStudio.NET you need access to a commercial
>product, VSIP (Visual Studio.NET Integration Program,

As I understand it, yes you do.

>My interest is also on trying to get some Haskell support in
>VS.NET. I haven't got as far as knowing if this can be
>distributed freely afterwards (I mean, as a free plug-in for
>someone who already has VS.NET licenses), but I thought
>this would be possible, since there is for example the
>Mondrian for .NET plug-in (I assume they used VSIP for that).

Integrated languages can be distributed freely. There are different 
QA conditions imposed on commercial and educational VSIP holders. The 
Mondrian plug-in uses VSIP & Daan's work.

>I thought that the work of Daan did at MS was in a VS version
>before VS.NET (I may be wrong), or maybe it wasn't packaged
>as a plug-in for VS (just guessing).

Daan's work was original done *in* VS 6 but produces code which will 
work with VS .NET (VS 7).

If you wish to find out about getting VSIP and/or accessing Daan's 
work I suggest in the first instance you contact Microsoft University 
Relations for your country, or if they don't cover your country 
(they're not in NZ for example, most of Europe is I think covered), 
contact them in the US.

HTH,
	Nigel

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Nigel Perry, New Zealand