Star VS 2005 Express Editions Free Download
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th Nov 2005 18:30 UTC, submitted by psilva
General Development Microsoft is offering Visual Studio Express Editions free of charge until 7th November 2006. Here's the faq.
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It sounds dumber then it is. GCC, OCaml, FreeBASIC, Freepascal, you name the language there is a FOSS dialect. Then there is Eclipse, KDevelop, Monodevelop, Shaprdevelop and so on for FOSS IDEs. You don’t need to run them on Linux but they ARE ALWAYS FREE and never watered down.

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Then there is Eclipse, KDevelop, Monodevelop, Shaprdevelop and so on for FOSS IDEs. You don’t need to run them on Linux but they ARE ALWAYS FREE and never watered down.

And this tools are toys if you compared to VS Express.

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roccod Member since:
2005-07-06

You are calling Eclipse a toy ? You'd better not tell IBM, Borland, QNX and Rational that they are building their software on "toys". Maybe you should use it sometime before commenting.

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Please, Eclipse is not half-baked, or a toy. Well, not for Java anyway. As a long-time satisfied Visual Studio user, I find that there are things I miss when I go back to it after the day job's hacking in Eclipse. Its certainly not perfect, but its a productive environment for Java.

Mind you, this is using Eclipse on XP. I tried it on FC4 using the native compile and was less impressed, but that's really an early port and I've no reason to suspect that on platforms supported by the Sun or IBM JVMs that it will be materially worse.

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