Compare Visual Prolog Editions

Visual Prolog is provided as:


 * The free Personal Edition
 * The paid Commercial Edition

Programs produced with the Personal Edition can only be used in non-commercial and personal contexts, for other usages the program must be developed and build with the Commercial Edition.

The Commercial Edition have additional functionality:


 * It can produce 64-bit executables
 * It can produce DLL's
 * It can bind to COM and Active/X components
 * It has additional library support
 * It comes with additional tools

The additional library support in the Commercial Edition should not be necessary for personal non-commercial usage. It includes things like


 * ODBC support
 * Cryptography
 * Interprocess communication
 * HTTP server and client functionality

There are additional examples in the Commercial Edition covering some of the extra library functionality.

The additional tools should not be necessary for personal non-commercial usage:


 * A command line project builder vipBuilder.exe for use in scripts
 * A Solution Manager for managing multiple projects as a "unit"
 * A Coverage Analysis tool
 * A tool xmlSerializerGenerator.exe for generating XML parser/writer from XSD files
 * A tool MemProfileAnalysis.exe for memory profiling Visual Prolog programs
 * Integration to SourceGear Vault version control system