Free Windows 2003 and Visual Studio 2008

[ki11erDM]

Lots of good free software if you are a student and your University has signed on.

https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/Default.aspx

It is darn nice way to learn Visual Studio 2008 with a real copy Windows Server 2003. I am not sure what Expression is yet, but looks to be a content creation package.

And yes. This is just M$ marketing trying to get kids use to their products so they will want to use them later after they get out of school, but I don’t really care about that.

 

[drothgery]

It is darn nice way to learn Visual Studio 2008 with a real copy Windows Server 2003. I am not sure what Expression is yet, but looks to be a content creation package.

Expression Web is MS's attempt to take on Dreamweaver and web design packages; the web designer in Visual Studio 2008 is based on Expression Web.

Expression Blend is the tool for authoring Silverlight, which is pretty much MS's attempt to take on Flash.

(of course, I graduated nine years ago, but I've got an MSDN subscription from work...)