Free From Microsoft! Visual Studio Express

[dgridley]

From the Site:

Announcing the release of Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions

I am proud to announce that today, November 7th 2005, we officially
released the downloadable versions of Visual Studio 2005 Express on
MSDN and they are free to download for one year!

Download Visual Studio Express
You can download Visual Studio Express from the links below:
Visual Web Developer 2005 Express
Visual Basic 2005 Express
Visual C# 2005 Express
Visual C++ 2005 Express
Visual J# 2005 Express
SQL Server Express

Visual Studio Express is free for one year
Until November 7, 2006, we are promotionally discounting the
downloadable versions of Express to free. This doesn’t mean that the
product turns off after a year, but rather that as long as you
download the product before November 7, 2006, you can get it for free
and you can use it forever.

Rewards for Registering
The other big news announced at the Visual Studio launch is the
availability of the Visual Studio Express DIY Kit, which is a set of
benefits you get for registering Express and includes:

250 royalty-free stock photography images from Corbis Free Windows Icons from IconBuffet

Free eBooks including: Mcft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express
Edition: Build a Web Site Now, Mcft Visual Basic 2005 Express
Edition: Build a Program Now!, and Mcft Visual C# 2005 Express
Edition: Build a Program Now!

3rd party components from VSIP partners

And we have more benefits coming soon

Want More Information?
Take a tour of the newly revamped Visual Studio Express Edition Web
site, read the Frequently Asked Questions, and as always, please tell
us what you think

We hope you enjoy Visual Studio Express as much as we do!

Sincerely,
The Visual Studio Express Team


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Download Page

Code:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/install/



Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition 449,848 KB F972C10F

http://download.Microsoft.com/download/0/C/B/0CB7A5FA-23E2-4E12-9040-C80C1E3446A3/WEB.img


Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition 445,282 KB BAC91B78

http://download.Microsoft.com/download/A/4/3/A43EFABE-4899-4D8E-92F0-BACD3BB34533/VB.img


Visual C# 2005 Express Edition 445,282 KB 55884F2C

http://download.Microsoft.com/download/F/B/7/FB752D3F-1351-4556-B1E1-C16615D09D59/VCS.img


Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition 474,686 KB 3DE23D4A

http://download.Microsoft.com/download/0/4/3/0434C5AF-8FB5-4D64-B8D8-E9BDF3C83152/VC.img


Visual J# 2005 Express Edition 448,702 KB 91B03EA5

http://download.Microsoft.com/download/C/0/D/C0DEABCF-4697-4EDA-916A-C998B1BD3A1C/VJS.img


Have Fun!

 

[RegFee]

I was just thinking of finding an old copy of vbasic and making a program for my own personal needs. Thanks for the link dave, rep added (suprised it let me)

-Jorge

 

[sjp]

These programs are extremely awesome, I can only suggest them to everyone who wants to do some Windows programming. If you've ever wanted to start programming now would be the best time.

 

[Palyriot]

WOW. That is soo cool. I have been using the Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Beta 2 and it is awesome. Now I'm going to get the new one for FREE!? That's just awesome. Thanks a ton gridley. I'm adding to your rep.

 

[RegFee]

This is my favorite part:

this doesn’t mean that the
product turns off after a year, but rather that as long as you
download the product before November 7, 2006, you can get it for free
and you can use it forever.

Takes a while to download, even on a cable connection. Oh well, def. worth it.

Is the web developer one strictly ASP or does it do PHP? Hope that's not a stupid question

WHEN YOU REGISTER: Don't use a Yahoo!Mail address, I had two of the confirmation emails sent there and they still haven't showed up. I used gmail for the last one and it showed up in 1 second.

 

[dgridley]

:lol: I can still get Rep.. just no new level to aspire to! I'm at 2397 now...

Thanks for the link dave, rep added (suprised it let me)

-Jorge

 

[Peter]

cheers

grabbing them now :>

 

[RegFee]

Whoever though microsoft would give us something for free.

lol...I know..since we pay so much for internet explorer, MS Antispyware, Windows Media Player, Messenger, and all of these: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?freetext=&productID=&DisplayLang=en

:p

 

[Xyzer]

Thanks for the links mate, i was lookuing out for a copy of this

 

[bojianh]

Thanks a lot! But, wow, that's a big file!

 

[commes]

arg didnt see this post earlier its no longer free :td:

 

[dgridley]

Sure it is.. it's free as long as you download it before Novemeber 7th of next year.. I just checked!

arg didnt see this post earlier its no longer free :td:

 

[Robson]

Awesome, thanks for the link

 

[navjotjsingh]

Thanks for sharing. Downloading now.

 

[brewmonkey]

I am glad this is all free! For all the un-installing and then re-installing of stuff I have to do I would be ticked!

As a person who is brand spanking new to the .NET experience I must say I picked an opportune time to do so. I mean this is a deal you can't beat with a stick.

 

[brewmonkey]

There may be some issues for a few of you with the install of some of these products. It will throw an error code of 1935 or 2908 during the installation. If that has happened to you, like it did to me, I have found a workaround for it that works like a charm.

http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/search.aspx?q=2908&p=1

Hopefully none of you have to deal with this because it was a HEADACHE trying to find an answer that was worth a damn. I went through several sites and workarounds that did not work before finding the above link.

 

[dgridley]

Thanks for the headsup!

 

[Joe]

i started using visual basic the other day at school briefly!
the first thing i learnt was how to create a button that would close it!
thats all i had time to do... my task is to create my own calculator using it! quite a task! i am having trouble though... i still haven't downloaded visual basic to my computer, do these links download it?

 

[brewmonkey]

Yes they do but this is for VB.NET not Visual Basic. However if you would like to get something for Visual Basic check out Amazon.com for a book on Teaching yourself VB6.0. They generally will have a CD Rom with the essential software for practicing. You can get them generally dirt cheap under the Used link.This book goes for about $40 new but they have some going for $11 under the used link. The key is that not all "used" books are used.

Some people are able to get remainded books from stores who went under for pennies on the dollar and they re-sell through amazon.com.

You should also look for Foozles, The Book Warehouse or The Bookmarket as that is all they do and I have found some killer deals there.

 

[RegFee]

I'm finding the videos that come free from learnvisualstudio.net are helpful, but sometimes a little too detailed. I set media player to play them a little faster and that works.