Microsoft DreamSpark - Free Professional Tools for Students

[sohum]

I was just browsing around the net and found that Microsoft offers its development and design tools (professional editions) to students at no charge. The tools on offer are Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Expression Studio, Windows Server 2003, and XNA Game Studio 2.0.

There is, of course, a catch. You have to be from one of the following countries:

United States, United Kingdom, Canada, China, Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium

Still thought I'd share it for anyone who hadn't heard of it:

https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/

 

[Neo95]

I was just browsing around the net and found that Microsoft offers its development and design tools (professional editions) to students at no charge. The tools on offer are Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Expression Studio, Windows Server 2003, and XNA Game Studio 2.0.

There is, of course, a catch. You have to be from one of the following countries:

United States, United Kingdom, Canada, China, Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium

Still thought I'd share it for anyone who hadn't heard of it:

https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/

LOL!You know about it just know.This was done May last year itself

 

[sohum]

LOL!You know about it just know.This was done May last year itself

This was released in February 2008, from the press releases I saw, so you are probably confusing it with something else.

Besides, I don't need to know about this because I get any development software I want free from my university anyway, as a CS major, so this was more an effort to publish it to people who didn't know they have these resources available.

 

[Kshitiz_Indian]

Can someone list to me the advantages of visual studio 2008 over the Express editions?

 

[sohum]

Can someone list to me the advantages of visual studio 2008 over the Express editions?

Visual Studio >> Visual Studio Express

Express is free and quick but it lacks many features such as source control and such. Also, code completion/refactoring/etc. is much better in the full edition.

An express edition is essentially a stripped down freeware edition of the full version. Not to mention you can open solutions with all project types in the Visual Studio IDE.

Basically, the fact that VS2008 retails at about $700 and VSE2008 editions are free should tell you the number of features in one versus the other.