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Microsoft Offers Beta of Visual Studio 2005

Posted by timothy on from the decorate-your-hospital-room-for-free dept.

nanodude writes "According to DimensionXC, Microsoft is offering a free beta version of Visual C++ Express 2005 among other programs in the Visual Studio 2005 Express Suite. Seems like a good deal to me!"

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  1. Nice Journalistic Integrity, there. by It's+People! · · Score: 5, Informative
    First of all, that beta's been free for a really long time. I've had it for months.

    Second, the website that "reported" it is a new forum that has only 1-2 posts. This is a blatant attempt at spamming the site to get more members.

    Nice work, editors.

    1. Re:Nice Journalistic Integrity, there. by nanodude · · Score: 5, Informative

      As the author of this story I would like to first off say that I do personally know the operator of the website (www.platinumcheats.com) however I did not contact him before submitting this story to /.. While browsing his website I notice the post concerning Visual Studio and, after searching /. for a similar article I realized that no one had posted about this before. I did not in anyway intend to advertise or publisize his website or spam /. but merely to post information that I came across and felt that others would benefit from. I did not look into the date of the beta release before posting. I appologize for any misunderstanding.

  2. Express Bits by Exostatic · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes.. All of the express bits have been free since their intial announcement about 5 months ago. These bits are designed for the hobbyist and will be freely available once VS2005 is offically released with the agreement that they cannot be used for commecial development.

    While they have not been designed to run on Linux the code you write may run, and it possibly these will run to if you are determined enough to find a solution

  3. Re:Not quite by GregChant · · Score: 3, Informative
    It's free if you happen to be running 10.3. Unless you've bought a computer from them in the last year the price is $129 for the OS upgrade (which I purchased specifically for XCode).

    You wasted $129. You can download XCode for free from ADC. Just need to register for an ADC Basic account, which is free as well.

  4. Re:Might eventually be completely free by _undan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Comparing Visual C++ to bcc is like comparing Kazaa to ftp.exe. It's more than just a compiler/linker - it's an entire IDE.

    Microsoft does have a free C++ linker/compiler sans-IDE. You can get it here.

  5. Re:Where's the Form editor? by atlasheavy · · Score: 4, Informative

    VC++ most certainly *does* have a Winforms designer. You have to create a Managed C++ Winforms project in order to take advantage of it, though. Otherwise it just ain't gonna work for you ;-). If you create a native app you can still use the old-school RC file editor, although my take on it is that it's just easier to hack RC files by hand (I've spent the past two weeks doing nothing but hand-editing RC files at work).

    --

    iRooster, the Mac OS X a
  6. Re:MS ABSOLUTELY DESPISES C++ by alexo · · Score: 3, Informative


    Oh, yea!
    They despise so much that they hired Herb Sutter to work on it.