Free visual Studio Express

[ainwood]

Mentioned by munzy in this thread, I've just downloaded Visual C# and Visual VB express editions.

They are absolutely free for the next year (that is, you can download them for free for the next year - I don't think they ever expire). They seem to be quite good - although only played around with it for a few minutes. CivAssistII converted over rather flawlessly, so the conversion from .net 2003 is pretty robust.

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

 

[Cedric Greene]

Also if you are looking to burn some iso copies of the software for multiple computers they are located at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/install/

 

[ainwood]

Also if you are looking to burn some iso copies of the software for multiple computers they are located at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/install/

Thanks.

Interesting - those downloads are about 450 MB each - yet the install from the web versions are only about 250 (incl. .Net 2.0 & the MSDN).

 

[The Person]

Mentioned by munzy in this thread, I've just downloaded Visual C# and Visual VB express editions.

They are absolutely free for the next year (that is, you can download them for free for the next year - I don't think they ever expire). They seem to be quite good - although only played around with it for a few minutes. CivAssistII converted over rather flawlessly, so the conversion from .net 2003 is pretty robust.

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

Nice! Thanks for the link!

BTW, I checked the readme, and it says it really is free forever! But only if you download it before November 6th 2006.

 

[Dabomb18359]

What are some other free compilers worth using?

 

[ainwood]

http://www.sharpdevelop.com/OpenSource/SD/Default.aspx

 

[Speedo]

Do they require .NET 2.0? I'd like to get the C++ version but need to keep .NET 1.1.

What are some other free compilers worth using?

http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html

For C and C++.

 

[ainwood]

Do they require .NET 2.0? I'd like to get the C++ version but need to keep .NET 1.1.



http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html

For C and C++.

They install .Net 2.0, but AFAIK you can still use 1.1 (CivAssist is written with 1.1, and still works fine - in fact, visual studio 2003 still works fine).

 

[Speedo]

I have a program which I need though that gets broken with 2.0.

 

[Dell19]

How do you actually successfully connect to a database in ASP .Net because at the moment it returns the error:
Failed to map the path to where I expect the database

The problem is that I don't even know how to properly phrase the question, I'm trying to get to grips with using the web development tool rather than writing everything in notepad but I am yet to find any useful tutorials on how to write pages in ASP .NET instead of normal asp and the code sections that I do find, produce the above error.