I currently have:
- Visual Studio 2003 Professional installed + Service Pack
- Visual Studio 2005 Professional installed + Service Pack
a project I am working on requires the FREE Visual Express C++ but also the Visual C# (both express Editions, Free).
Does anyone here have a combination like this? I am pretty sure all 4 can co-exist without any "issues", perhaps I am wrong?
Why install the Express versions when you have the professional suite (most recent version of Express tools is 2005)?
I am not entirely sure that is true; hence my original question. I read somewhere (wish I could remember where) that there are differences between say C# Visual Express and C# in Visual Studio 2005 Pro, but I am not sure :-(Originally Posted by SMurf
Why install the Express versions when you have the professional suite (most recent version of Express tools is 2005)?
The language itself would be the same; What the IDE gives you, like the ability to edit resources and stuff, is what you're paying for (Pro "does" more).
Therefore I'm pretty sure that you can't install the same version of both Express and Pro.
You might be able to, but it is simply unnecessary. Pro is a superset of Express.
All the buzzt!
CornedBee
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the newest version of express is indead 2005, and the features it leaves out are truly enormous. So stripped down in fact that it doesnt provide a meaningful demonstration of the full versions abilities, or so I would hope. I D/L'd it and tried to compile an application and it refused to compile at all, it cant even find <windows.h> .
To find windows.h you need to install Windows SDK as addition to the VS Express
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