MS is about to release Visual Studio 2005 released a Stable beta version in June 2004 for free test, the official download address is as follows: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/ Download A Online Form You can also find direct download links from the following URL, but I have not verified whether it is an earlier version: http://blog.joycode.com/UESTC95/Archive/2004/07/01/26234.aspx There is also a download link of 2004.10 version (Express Team): http://blogs.msdn.com/express/archive/2004/10/21/246091.aspx or you can also find updates from the link below Beta 2 (2005.2) download link, but this version seems to be installed online: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/downloads/default.aspx is currently found in the official message of MS. Expiration's instructions, so you should be able to use indefinitely, just like Visual Studio Toolkit 2003. However, different from 2003 is that 2003 is just a compiler, and the 2005 Express released is a relatively complete IDE. It is quite complete because it does not provide support for MFC / ATL and has not yet available.
