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How much do Microsoft's dev tools cost? (honest question)
by jonny_eh 16y ago
How much do Microsoft's dev tools cost? (honest question)
- achompas 16y agoMy experience: they're free, but they cost a piece of your sanity. [0] I wanted to set up Visual Studio Express on my Windows partition just so I could screw around with Silverlight. Two hours, about 12 forum threads, and three beers later, I vowed to never develop anything for Microsoft. [0] http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/express http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-ed...
- self 16y agoThe SDKs are free, and ship with compilers. The Express GUI development environments are free, but limited.
- gte525u 16y agoThere are third party tools like sharpdevelop which are generally better than the express tools.
- oemera 16y agoThere are free (Express) versions of Visual Studio but they lack those awesome Visual Studio Professional features AND Visual Studio Professional costs 1500 bucks.