Free Microsoft Developer Products for Students

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Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition
SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft Expression Studio
XNA Game Studio 2.0
XNA Creator's Club Online
Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition

I believe it does check to make sure you're a student.

Also, check to see if your school has a MSDN AA account - you may have access to more free Microsoft software through that.
 
That sounds great. What does it say a 'Student' is? Age limits? University? Seconday/High schools?
 
Dammit, my College is not on the list. Oh well it looks like it's off to the Pirate bay then.
 
Oh theres a list. I didnt read it correctly.

/reads again. Oh ok :D.
 
Belgium is in there, though I won't be using it any time soon. I'm only messing around in Java Blue at the moment.
 
We have a couple of games in development for XNA at out Uni for the moment. They have a couple of weeks left in development, so we'll see how it goes for them :) The MSDN AA thing is really great if you can get it... I got several keys for XP and the Vista copy im currently using off that thing.
 
Yeah I'm using Vista 64bit of there too. Really helpful if you can get it :)
 
Verrry tempting. I've always wanted to try out visual studio, and possibly XNA, but I know they'd probably just waste hard-drive space.
 
DreamThrall said:
Visual Studio is hardly a waste of space :angry:
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I'm just suggesting that I probably wouldn't be able to figure it out, like so many of the other programs that I've downloaded over the years and tried to learn for a few weeks before quitting, like Flash and 3DS Max.
 
Ah... well Visual Studio, imo, is a bit different... Granted, you'll need to be familiar with one of the languages it supports (C#, VB.NET, C++ or J#, and there might be plugins or something for other languages) to get any use out of it. Think of it this way... armed with notepad and a compiler, you could write an application for any one of the languages I just listed. Visual Studio just provides an environment to facilitate your development by managing the files in your project, managing solutions of multiple projects, intellisense, compiler warnings, some dynamic code generation via designers and other tools, other management functions via 3rd party plugins like source control, etc, etc.

But yeah, if you don't already know one of those languages, Visual Studio won't magically write your application for you.

I guess it's not all that different than Flash or 3DSMax then - in either one of those, you need to be familiar with what you would be creating or else the tools won't really be of much use to you.
 
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