The word "Free" apparently does not exist in Microsoft dictionary. Yes Microsoft is very rarely give software for free they are made. Their software such as Windows OS or Microsoft Office requires that anyone who wants to use it to pay a large amount of money.
However, in order to maintain their dominance as the giant software company, they willing to give a very good software for free for their long-term interests. Would be expected that more and more developers will create software for their operating systems, Windows OS.
The software that I mean here is the Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition. Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition is a tool to create innovative applications. To use it is very easy, even for beginners.
Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition supports writing of code into some favorite programming language, like C#, C++ and VB. The minimum operating system supported by Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition is Windows XP SP2.
Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition consists of the following products:
- Visual Basic Express
- Visual Web Developer Express
- Visual C++ Express
- Visual C# Express
- SQL Server Express
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Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition version info:
Version: 9.0.30729.1 (x86)
Date update: Jun 30, 2022
File name: VS2008ExpressENUX1397868.iso
Size: 894 MB
Click the following link to download Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition.