{"id":278,"date":"2006-04-23T21:15:43","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T20:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2006-04-23T21:15:43","modified_gmt":"2006-04-23T20:15:43","slug":"visual-c-express-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"Visual C# Express Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been looking at Visual C# Express Edition<\/a>, which according to this blog posting<\/a> is now free forever. Specifically, I’ve been looking at the functionality differences between the Express Editions and the fully-fledged Visual Studio Professional et al. <\/p>\n

However, before I start to blog about the differences, I thought it prudent to let you know the benefits of registering<\/a> these free editions. When I registered my copy of Visual C# Express Edition, I was offered access to a portal that gave me the chance to download this little lot of goodies:<\/p>\n

IconBuffet Studio Edition Icon Suite <\/strong>
\nA collection of over 100 professional, royalty-free stock icons from IconBuffet.com. The IconBuffet Studio Suite collection contains core icons from several of IconBuffet’s most popular hand-crafted stock icon collections. As part of this promotion, you are free to use these icons in your desktop and web application development. <\/p>\n

Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition – Build a Program Now! Document Microsoft\u00ae Visual C#\u2122 2005 Express Edition: Build a Program Now! <\/strong>
\nThis fun and highly visual guide walks you through a complete programming project\u2014a desktop weather-reporting application\u2014from start to finish. You\u2019ll learn how to put the lightweight, easy-to-use tools in Visual C# Express to work right away\u2014creating, compiling, testing, and delivering your first ready-to-use program. You\u2019ll get expert tips, coaching, and visual examples at each step of the way, along with pointers to additional learning resources. <\/p>\n

Graphics Server .NET – Utility – Graphics Server .NET <\/strong>
\nExperience Interactive Chart Design with Graphics Server .NET. Learn how fast and easy it is to design a chart and integrate it with your Visual Studio 2005 application with our new Interactive Designer. Professional looking results, fast development and reasonable prices for both Win and Web Forms. <\/p>\n

\/n software IPWorks! ADO.NET Data Provider – Utility \/n software IP*Works! ADO.NET Data Provider<\/strong>
\nFree single machine license of IP*Works! ADO.NET Data Provider. With IP*Works! you can use SQL queries and data objects built on the .NET Framework to easily access data for Internet development. Implements a standard Microsoft .NET Data Provider for accessing Email (POP, IMAP, SMTP), News (NNTP), and RSS. <\/p>\n

WebPlanner 2005 – Utility – ComponentScience WebPlanner 2005 <\/strong>
\nThe scheduling component for ASP.NET 2.0. WebPlanner 2005 for ASP.NET 2.0 is a fully functional scheduling component for day, week, month and timeline rendering. WebPlanner provides drag and drop features and is compatible with Internet Explorer, FireFox, Mozilla and Opera. It also includes a MonthPlanner control as an extra bonus. <\/p>\n

Corbis Images – Utility<\/strong>
\nAn assortment of 250 royalty-free images from Corbis for inclusion in your web sites and applications. <\/p>\n

There’s a good chance that more goodies will be made available, so it’s worth registering and worth periodically checking to see if any new stuff as been made available!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s worth registering your copy…if you’d like a load of free goodies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}