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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: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.