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 libray functionality.

The additional tools are:

• A command line project builder for scripts
• A solution manager for managing multiple projects as a "unit"
• A coverage analysis tools
• A memory profiling tools
• Integration to SourceGear Vault