Sparx Systems Forum
Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: mikewhit on November 17, 2005, 01:50:57 am
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I do most of my stuff using open source tools, but MS-heads (on a budget) might like the following:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/
Looks like you get free updates for a year, doesn't look as if it's time-limited in operation.
No zealot postings here, please ! Horses for courses ...
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That's nice. It's worth noting that the Express products are limited in that they only target .NET platforms, not native Win32 code.
However in the Beta versions you could overcome this limitation by downloading the (free) platform SDK. I don't know if you still can do this, I haven't tried it yet.
Incidentally, Sun have also made their developer studio suite available for free download, which is quite impressive because it was $3,000 previously.
Cheers
Graham
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Visual C++ Express actually contains the full C/C++ compiler which can target both .NET and native code. You do need to download the Platform SDK separately but otherwise it appears to be the real thing. I was surprised to find out about that, too...
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That's nice then.
We develop on *nix, win32 and embedded platforms and I have to say I generally like *nix better, but the MS debugger is streets ahead of anything else I've used.
I'm looking forward to trying it out.