<div dir="ltr">Thanks! That's a great thing I didn't know about! Much appreciated.<div><br></div><div>-Kelly</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 7:59 AM, BillK <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Microsoft has released a free version of Visual Studio. This is a good<br>
buy as it used to be expensive.<br>
<<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/12/microsoft-makes-visual-studio-free-for-small-teams/" target="_blank">http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/12/microsoft-makes-visual-studio-free-for-small-teams/</a>><br>
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Microsoft today launched the Community 2013 edition of Visual Studio,<br>
which essentially replaces the very limited Visual Studio Express<br>
version the company has been offering for a few years now.<br>
<br>
There is a huge difference between Visual Studio Express and the aptly<br>
named Visual Studio 2013 Community edition, though: The new version is<br>
extensible, so get access to the over 5,100 extensions now in the<br>
Visual Studio ecosystem. It's basically a full version of Visual<br>
Studio with no restrictions, except that you can't use it in an<br>
enterprise setting and for teams with more than five people (you can,<br>
however, use it for any other kind of commercial and non-commercial<br>
project).<br>
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Download here:<br>
<<a href="http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-community-vs" target="_blank">http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-community-vs</a>><br>
Note that this is a 9GB download, so you need a fast connection and<br>
plenty of disk space.<br>
<br>
As it supports Visual Basic and many other languages, it might be<br>
useful for youngsters learning to program. (Spike?)<br>
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You can also download a tuition pack.<br>
Microsoft Visual Studio Learning Pack 2.0<br>
<<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=22347&751be11f-ede8-5a0c-058c-2ee190a24fa6=True" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=22347&751be11f-ede8-5a0c-058c-2ee190a24fa6=True</a>><br>
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BillK<br>
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