C# Express is Alive. IT'S ALIVE!!!

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11/07/2005

I'm proud to tell you all about the availabilty *today* of C# Express
for the insanely high price of $0. That's right. You can
get streamlined and slick version of Visual Studio with complete
support for C# editing, WinForms development and debugging for
FREE! I worked hard on this product (from the feature level all
the way to Sku creation) and i'm incredibly proud of it. Having a
free development platform is something that i've been wanting to
provide ever since i came to the company. You were always able to
develop on windows for free using the SDKs we've provided.
However, there's a vast difference between using notepad and a csc.exe
and having a rich development environment that can make development so
much faster.

So if you want a great, free IDE head over to the C# Express
page and go get it. Or, heck, if you want to try out the IDE to
see what it's like before shooting for one of it's more expsensive
simplblings, you now can find out what they're like without needing a
beta. And, i might as well mention it, if you want great, free VB, C++, ASP.Net, J# tools or even SQL Server, you can get those for free as well!!!

This is an awesome day for me and i hope it is for you as well!

Comments

Anonymous
November 07, 2005
Is this a new thing or was it always supposed to be free. I rember reading that they were going to go for about $95
Anonymous
November 07, 2005
Congradulations!
Anonymous
November 07, 2005
BTW. It's not FREE. Microsoft is being kind of enough to you to allow you to use it for a year.
Anonymous
November 07, 2005
That's not true, DeepICE. If you download it within the next year, it's free forever. Check Dan Fernandez's announcement on his blog.
Anonymous
November 07, 2005
Awesome! Thanks for creating these great tools for students, hobbyish, and the slow laptop I have that now can bring C# and SQL everywhere I go. (Is it impossible to make ASP.NET Express and IIS Express?)

I just hope they will replace GVIM + gcc in the schools labs soon.
Anonymous
November 07, 2005
loc:
Is it impossible to make ASP.NET Express and IIS Express?

As Cyrus mentioned in his list, there is an Express SKU for ASP.NET called <a "href=http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/default.aspx">Visual Web Developer Express</a>.

IIS is not a programming language like C# or VB or even ASP.NET. IIS is the web application server that is a part of Windows, and comes with WinXP Pro (afaik, not Home) and Windows server (both 2k and 2k3). ASP.NET is designed to run on IIS. I'm not sure what you'd be looking for in "IIS Express." :)
Anonymous
November 07, 2005
eep, comments don't like html. Here's the URL I was shooting for.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/default.aspx
Anonymous
November 07, 2005
Neal: I was thinking about IIS Lite (& free), and wanting one since I don't understand why XP Home on my laptop doesn't have it.
Anonymous
November 07, 2005
Thanks for the link, Neal. I'll figure out if I can download/install IIS on XP Home.
Anonymous
November 07, 2005
Loc: I would imagine that IIS isn't made available for XP Home users as it's a product that's only 0.00001% of all XP Home users would use :)
Anonymous
November 07, 2005
And memory served me right. I'm stuck with XP Home and can't install VWD 2005 on it.
Anonymous
November 07, 2005
Loc: AFAIK, you should have no problem installing VWD Express on XP home. What issue are you seeing?
Anonymous
November 07, 2005
Cyrus, I agree with you, but at least let me download and install it on Home. It must be hard to have that option. Anyway, these new tools are sweet enough to upgrade the thing to XP Pro.
Anonymous
November 07, 2005
Cyrus: Really? VWD doesn't need IIS? This must be new.
Anonymous
November 07, 2005
I mean I haven't used VWD, so I'm not aware of that.
Anonymous
November 07, 2005
Loc: VWD comes with it's own mini web server that you can develop against. WHen you've completed your work you can use any of a huge number of cheap hosters to host your ASP.Net application.

Cheers!
Anonymous
November 08, 2005
that's exactly what i need, C#rus. thanks for cheering me up.
Anonymous
November 08, 2005
If you check the Visual Studio Express FAQ it says its free for 1 year. Still a bargain tho at $49.
Anonymous
November 09, 2005
"...as long as you download Visual Studio Express on or before November 7th 2006, you will not have to pay for it."
Anonymous
November 09, 2005
Hey Cyrus this is completely off topic but what do you use to format and color the C# code you post? It looks really nice and the HTML is very clean.
Anonymous
November 09, 2005
testing:

<@
private void SearchTextBox_KeyUp(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs e)
{
if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Enter)
{
Search();
}
}
@>

yeah, how do you post C# code that?
Anonymous
November 09, 2005
test 2:

<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><PRE class=coloredcode>int i = 5;
string s = "Hello";
double d = 1.0;
int[] numbers = new int[] {1, 2, 3};
Dictionary<int,Order> orders = new Dictionary<int,Order>();
</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE>
Anonymous
November 09, 2005
when you're logged in blogs.msdn.com, this textbox probably has advanced features to copy & paste code block, I guess.
Anonymous
November 10, 2005
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Anonymous
November 17, 2005
Yes! I'll be able to download them tonight, finally.

Hey, how are you mastering C#3 and working on VS 05 at the same time? How do you gain a new skill? Share with us if you could.
Anonymous
November 18, 2005
Does anyone know if I can install SxS VS03, VS05, and those Express products? Thanks!
Anonymous
December 16, 2005
Cyrus, dude, have you stopped blogging or what?
Anonymous
January 03, 2006
I will not go two months without blogging.
Anonymous
February 22, 2006
C# Express is Alive... unfortunatly this blog isn't :-(

Was informational and entertaining while it lasted.

Thanks Cyrus,

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