{"id":280,"date":"2005-11-09T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/visual-studio-express-editions-and.htm"},"modified":"2007-05-31T23:13:12","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T22:13:12","slug":"visual-studio-express-editions-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/visual-studio-express-editions-and.htm","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio Express Editions and Coding4Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--113155204678465404--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/sql\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/visualstudio2005expresseditions.gif?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Even though I&#8217;m no developer, I have been known to knock up the occasional script and once upon a time I could even have considered myself to have programming skills&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Well maybe now I can start to build them up again as Microsoft are offering the Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions for free. <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/vstudio\/express\/\">More details are available on the Microsoft website<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/vstudio\/express\/support\/faq\/\">check out the FAQ<\/a>) but basically, for web developers there is Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition; for database developers there&#8217;s SQL Server 2005 Express Edition; and for Windows developers there are Visual Studio Express Editions for Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++ and Visual J#. 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