Thursday, November 10, 2005

Visual Studio Express -- for free!

Microsoft is wooing developers with this one-year promo. This limited-functionality "express" version is perfect for beginners like me.

posted at 7:46 AM

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:56 AM

    They were giving out the standard edition at the launch - does Express offer something better (besides leaving you with more free disk space, I mean).

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  2. Unknown12:27 PM

    No, the standard edition is definitely the more desirable product (here's a comparison chart.) But I didn't get a chance to attend the launch event, so I didn't get a free copy of standard (a $262.99 value!). Had I known they were giving out free copies, I would have made more of an effort to go.

    Still the express edition will come in handy for my programming classes. The question for me is: should I uninstall my full-blown Visual Studio.NET (two versions old) for this newer but stripped-down version?

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  3. Anonymous10:45 AM

    Would you do it for the standard version?

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  4. Unknown10:57 PM

    Actually, I didn't have to uninstall anything. I can have both versions installed without interfering with anything.

    I like the new version, but doubt I'd end up using even a fraction of the features in Standard.

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