Visual Web Developer 2005 is free forever!
Yes. Yes. Come one. Come all. Today Microsoft announced that Visual Web Developer 2005 will remain free forever vs. the 1 year free period that they had originally stated. While I have not used VWD myself, I have heard that it's a pretty good program.
Microsoft Brings Programming to the Masses With Visual Studio Express
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Comments
Dom on on 4.22.2006 at 10:36 AM
And what's better, aspects of the product are better than Visual Studio .NET 2003 Pro.
For example:
1) I can create and edit Views, Sprocs, UDF's, Tables from within VWD Express (not possible with a certain edition of VS. NET 2003 Pro)
2) A far better debugger.
MS has been even more generous by offering Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition at $49 for students.
Charles M. Carroll on on 4.25.2006 at 9:06 PM
I think the FREE product has some severe flaws particularly in the area of no add-in support since some add-ins are essential to make Vstudio workable in a few situations. I think FREE things that are crippled may be the "preacher getting praise from the choir" but they may truly discourage some people from ever buying it.
MS needs to take stock of a few features they removed that truly crippled the free one in my experience with what newbies or perpetual intermediates want to be able to realistically evaluate a product's strengths.