Visual Studio 2005 Express [free]

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Paul Blarmy said:
On 14 May 2006 19:15:49 +0200, John Jay Smith wrote...


http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/default.aspx

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Yes, you can download all of them Vc++, Vc#, VB, VJ#, and when you get all
the isos burnt to cd's, they won't install. Too much trouble for too little
gain. Probably I could install if I knew what to uninstall or upgrade, but I
don't have time to mess with it. Also holds true for the sql server express.


Dick Kistler
 
Richard said:
Yes, you can download all of them Vc++, Vc#, VB, VJ#, and when you get
all the isos burnt to cd's, they won't install. Too much trouble for too
little gain. Probably I could install if I knew what to uninstall or
upgrade, but I don't have time to mess with it. Also holds true for the
sql server express.
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ISOs? Why?
 
Tim Weaver said:
Download it and install it from your HD.>
Damn, man.
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Tim Weaver

I know you think you understand what you thought I said,
but I am not so sure what you heard is not what I meant.
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Tried that didn't work either. Two computers.
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Umm no disrespect, but me thinks you don't know what you are doing. Works
fine. I have installed the C# version in 3 computers.
 
Yes, you can download all of them Vc++, Vc#, VB, VJ#, and when you get all
the isos burnt to cd's, they won't install. Too much trouble for too little
gain. Probably I could install if I knew what to uninstall or upgrade, but I
don't have time to mess with it. Also holds true for the sql server express.
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You can use archivers like IzArc to extract all files from the ISO's,
you don't have to burn the ISO's to disc.
 
Al said:
.net. All I need to know.
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Visual C++ 2005 Express also handles native (ie, non-.NET) code. You need to
get the rather bulky PlatformSDK to do native apps, but the PSDK is also
free.
 
Visual C++ 2005 Express also handles native (ie, non-.NET) code. You need to
get the rather bulky PlatformSDK to do native apps, but the PSDK is also
free.
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Interesting. Is this also true for VB.Net?
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Chris
 
Chris said:
Interesting. Is this also true for VB.Net?
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I don't think so, and probably not for C# either - those languages are
inherently .NET. A native C# platform would be pretty interesting, IMHO.
 
Visual C++ 2005 Express also handles native (ie, non-.NET) code. You need to
get the rather bulky PlatformSDK to do native apps, but the PSDK is also
free.
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2005 is merely the latest (and very light) upgrade to the .net family.
It still requires the .net bloatware.

Size is only one of my objections to .net, but it is an objection,
whether it's the .net framework or the PSDK.
 
Al said:
2005 is merely the latest (and very light) upgrade to the .net family.
It still requires the .net bloatware.

Size is only one of my objections to .net, but it is an objection,
whether it's the .net framework or the PSDK.
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The IDE requires the .net framework, the compiler (afaik) doesn't. You can
strip out compiler+tools from vc2005 express and headers + libraries from
the platformsdk, then you've got a native build environment that doesn't
take up much space nor relies on .net.

You *do* need to download quite an amount of megabytes before you can do
this, though :)
 
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