Microsoft freeware - Visual Studio???

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Following is cut from the Karen's Power Tools Newsletter:



"If all this sounds too good to be true, you're right. There's less to
Microsoft's offer than first appears.

To begin with, the Express products you can download today are early
"beta" versions. Like all betas, they have more than the usual number of
bugs awaiting extermination.

Worse, these "Express" products are incomplete. Oddly, most of the
features that make them appealing, such as the promised tutorials, aren't
yet available.

Finally, while the beta versions of these products are free, they will
"expire", or stop working when the shipping versions are released. The
final versions will require a few coins in order to operate. I expect the
prices will be "reasonable", but they won't be free."
 
Michael said:
Following is cut from the Karen's Power Tools Newsletter:



"If all this sounds too good to be true, you're right. There's less to
Microsoft's offer than first appears.

To begin with, the Express products you can download today are early
"beta" versions. Like all betas, they have more than the usual number
of bugs awaiting extermination.

Worse, these "Express" products are incomplete. Oddly, most of the
features that make them appealing, such as the promised tutorials,
aren't yet available.

Finally, while the beta versions of these products are free, they will
"expire", or stop working when the shipping versions are released. The
final versions will require a few coins in order to operate. I expect
the prices will be "reasonable", but they won't be free."
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Better value :

..NET SDK
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...a6-3647-4070-9f41-a333c6b9181d&displaylang=en

and SharpDevelop http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/

Dick Kistler
 
Dick Kistler said:
Better value :
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It would be nice if you lot could expand the communication beyond an
exchange of url's. Many of us use off line readers and dial up
connections. Also it makes postings a lot more informative if links
and recommendations are accompanied by brief descriptions of what a
program is and does.

Frank
 
Frank Delamarre said:
It would be nice if you lot could expand the communication beyond an
exchange of url's. Many of us use off line readers and dial up
connections. Also it makes postings a lot more informative if links
and recommendations are accompanied by brief descriptions of what a
program is and does.
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.... and how big the download is please, as I too am on dial-up.
(Mind you, that didn't stop me downloading 80MB of Q2 levels on one
occasion)

Rgds
 
Dick said:
Better value :

.NET SDK
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...a6-3647-4070-9f41-a333c6b9181d&displaylang=en

Development environment for Windows.NET- Includes Command line compilers for
C++, C#, and Visual Basic
and SharpDevelop http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/
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Free IDE styled on Visual Studio, designed for C# but is increasingly good
for Visual Basic. Requires .NET SDK

Come on now, you figured out how large the download was very quickly once
you looked at the download pages. And of
course you wouldn't have looked if I had said the .NET SDK was 108 MB,
right!

and I gave you more info than the OP.
 
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