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