This week, Microsoft announced that the Express editions of it’s popular Visual Stuido line of development tools would be made avalable free of charge and free of royalties from now on. This is great news for starting developers, hobbyists and enthusiasts who up until this point had to pay for the privilege of developing in these technologies.
The Express editions are scaled-back versions of Microsoft’s Visual Studio line. They include an IDE and compiler for building:
- Windows Applications in C#
- Windows Applications in Visual Basic.NET
- Windows Applications in Visual C++
- Windows Applications in J#
- Web Applications in C# or Visual Basic.NET
- Database Driven applications in any technology
Look for more great things to come from free and open-source software developers around the world now that these technologies are more widely available.
More detailed information on this can be found in ScottGu’s blog.
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1 Intergalactic Dust » Microsoft turns over a new leaf? // Sep 14, 2006 at 9:19 pm
[...] Subsequent to an article I posted back in April (Microsoft Joins the Free Software Revolution), Microsoft has made another step towards public good-citizenry by making its Open Specification Promise on August 13th. This declaration states that Microsoft will not assert certain patents that it presently holds, or will hold in the future, around Web Services. [...]
2 Microsoft turns over a new leaf? | K's Weblog // Jul 15, 2007 at 11:43 pm
[...] to an article I posted back in April (Microsoft Joins the Free Software Revolution), Microsoft has made another step towards public good-citizenry by making its Open Specification [...]
3 Microsoft Releases VS 2008 “Orcas” | K's Weblog // Dec 4, 2007 at 2:00 am
[...] those of you who haven’t read my previous posts on the subject, the Express editions are standalone IDE’s for VB, C# and Web Development, as [...]
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