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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. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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
  5. 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.