Visual Studio 8 Express Gold

[DarkstarsDad]

Microsoft has released the Visual studio Express editions.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/default.aspx


Though some of you might want to play with them.
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Just because you think you can't. Is the best reason to try it anyway.

[dougnoel]

I have been using this. It's got some nice little perks over Visual Studio 2003, which I have at work. It does not however, have native support for Windows Applications. That requires an extra download that they don't tell you about. You can create a Window project and it will not warn you you need an SDK. Needless to say, I was not happy about this. I am in the process of getting the PSDK now, so we'll see how it goes.

Some related information:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=7004&SiteID=1
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/visualc/usingpsdk/default.aspx

Current (March 2006) SDK Download from M$:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=0BAF2B35-C656-4969-ACE8-E4C0C0716ADB&displaylang=en

[dougnoel]

I also needed this post to get things to start compiling: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=52748&SiteID=1

Now I'm dealing with depreciated C functions...

It requires defining: