Visual studio express products released.. and free

#21 I just finished working the webcast Launch here in San Francisco and I must say it r-o-c-k-e-d....ha, ha; pretty funny to hear the Cheap Trick intro to the keynote speakers entrance[heard it over/over during rehersals!"Hello, there ladies & gentle; hello there ladies & gentlemen"]. It was pretty damn amazing to be working around the Huge SQL servers that were positioned around the Keynote room. CheapTrick was the entertainment at the actual 'par-tay' after the general session and breakouts finished. AC/DSHE[all girl tribute band] played out in the lobby where various X-box kiosks were located along with two large screen multiplayer terminals with a very nice projector system, screens being glass and not just standard AV rear/front projection screens& big, which made it a very crisp viewing experience. Halo & a racing game were the games in the boxes, kiosks had various demos, alas no GG product line being represented...I had thought that the chap doing the RockaRoki singing with the live band might have been Jeff T., but being working at the time, I felt it inappropriate to approach him at the time. He was a blond guy[not too tall], with a very expressive set of pipes, ahem.

It is so nice to be within 60 of Silicon Valley....not being a programmer, I kept wondering about the VisualStudio product, is this what the Source files are compiled with??

Also there seemed to be some tool for dynamic website creation that seemed to be pretty keen[caught just a smidge of the speakers demo]; seemed to make site developement easier, again, it is so neat to be surrounded by all these technologies at the time. Oh, and the 13 table pool room we 'built' with the 3 airhocky and 2 foos ball tables was also nice. The production coordinator needed me to come up with a quick and dirty solution to the lighting fixtures that got struck from the show[and added back in a the very last minute, D'oh! hate that] and I couldn't believe how good it worked. A standard IKEA 'china-hat' fixture had a powercord at the perfect length for the 'trim'[height] of the truss we suppended them from. It's great when ideas like that work out, the 'client' was very happy to see the 'look' restored to the production.

...just another day in showbiz, :)!

#22 Jeffery,

I'm not going to get at your throat but this was just a post for people who used windows that needed a good Dev enviroment.

I understand understand that a lot of people aren't MS people but i don't think that just because MS is mentioned people need to chime in about how they don't like a product for whatever reason.

Not saying your bashing, but why turn a positive thread into one laced with negativity. Although a small amout of it.

#23 @Rex

No fair, the launch here in Phoenix yesterday was just four hours of "this is what VS2005 can do", just presented in a movie theater with two speakers. I want Cheap Trick :( (hehe)

Oh well, I got free VS.NET Express and Windows Vista Beta 1, so it wasn't all bad :)

#24 There was one in Phoenix *cries* damn wish I heard about it sooner.

#25 I want my free standard edition. *getting antsy* I'm signed up for the one in Tampa, it doesn't happen til 12/15.

#26 Scott,
Except for the MSDN library and sourcesafe compatibility, when combined, the express versions are practically the same as the standard version.

You can see a comparison here.

#27 Yeah, I figured they'd be pretty similar. I've been using the the Express beta for some time now. I just really don't feel like installing the release Express when I know I'm just going to be installing Standard in a month. Course I really just need to buy Pro and be done with it, but hey, I'm cheap.

#28 There is an express version of the MSDN libray that sits at around 300 megs. So It's pretty much the same as the full msdn library but without the information pertaining to stuff that you can't use with the express products

#29

Quote:No fair, the launch here in Phoenix yesterday was just four hours of "this is what VS2005 can do", just presented in a movie theater with two speakers.

damn that sucks....

Mine was great, met some cool people.

#30 Works fine for me compiling TSE. Had to add in some lib's for the linker, but that was about all.

#31 One caveat for those that already have Visual Studio .Net up and running on their machines.

If you install VS2005 Express to have a look at the new features, as I did, it will corrupt your .Net installation slightly and you will wind up needing to repair or reinstall. The symptom shows up when you try to build TGE in debug mode, with an undefined external popping up related to new instruction set features I suppose, specifically "__ftol_sse".

Bulds TGE in release mode just fine though.