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Posted in VisualStudio on Apr 21st, 2006
Five million copies of the Visual Studio Express Editions have been downloaded and registered. FIVE MILLION in only five months. The original plan from Microsoft was to have these editions free for the first 12 months, then to sell them for $49.00US. Not anymore
Yesterday Microsoft broadcast the good news that they will NEVER charge you [...]
Posted in .NET, VisualStudio on Apr 10th, 2006
I use the DeveloperExpress Refactor tool frequently when working in Visual Studio 2005. I suspect a lot of other developers use it too, especially since it is available for free - for Visual Basic programmers.
There is a consistent bug in Refactor that hasn’t been fixed yet. It’s more of a petty annoyance than a serious [...]
Posted in .NET, VisualStudio on Feb 25th, 2006
There are some tools that just seem to find their way into every .NET developer toolbox. Lutz Roeder’s Reflector for .NET is one of these. I don’t know a single working .NET developer that doesn’t use Reflector. Some of my friends live inside of it.
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Since Reflector is such a useful tool [...]
Posted in VisualStudio on Dec 30th, 2005
I like Visual Studio. I’ve been using it for years and years and I know it’s quirks intimately. The new VS 2005 has lots of great features that help me write code faster. There are also a few annoyances, like little burrs under my shirt collar, that chafe me and make me want the slam [...]
Posted in .NET, VisualStudio on Nov 7th, 2005
Microsoft announced the pricing today for Visual Studio Express and SQL Server Express. Total cost to you, $0.00
That’s right, free, nada, nothing. This is really an INCREDIBLE deal.
From the Microsoft FAQ:
We are announcing a pricing promotion for Visual Studio Express – for the first year after the products launch on November 7th, 2005, customers [...]
Posted in VisualStudio on Oct 27th, 2005
Man oh man. I’ve been waiting for today. The day that I could have the finished bits of .NET 2.0.
For the last couple of years I’ve been actively working with Whidbey. Of course Whidbey changed it’s name during the project — becoming Visual Studio 2005. Early in the product cycle I became convinced that Visual [...]
Posted in VisualStudio on Apr 15th, 2005
Rob Caron has a excellent post describing each of the upcoming Visual Studio editions. Nothing more to say, check it out.
Posted in VisualStudio on Feb 10th, 2005
Try to pin down a price for VSTS from a Microsoft employee is impossible. The latest news is that a firm price will be announced in March 2005.
The bad news is that MSDN subscriptions are going to change and if you want VSTS it is going to cost you more $$$. How much more? [...]
Posted in VisualStudio on Sep 17th, 2004
Monday morning, during his keynote at VSLive (September 13, 2004), I heard Microsoft Vice President S. Somasegar announce the latest version of Visual Studio: Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition. The number of editions of VS is growing rapidly making it hard to remember which features are in each version.
The new MSDN Visual Studio 2005 site [...]
Posted in VisualStudio on Aug 10th, 2004
Today’s guest speaker from Microsoft [at the southern California Working Connections conference] dropped the bomb on pricing for the .NET express editions. Can you say FREE? As in complimentary for you and me.
Not low cost - that’s right - NO COST.
This is an amazing price, if he is correct.
Can anyone from Microsoft confirm [...]