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I've just stumbled on a Microsoft program that offers Visual Studio Professional, among other things like SQL Server and Windows Server 2008, for free (as in beer). The catch is that you have to be a student.
Anyone know any other places where you can acquire software like this for free - legally that is.
Visual Studio Express and SQL Server Express are free for anyone.
Unfortunately there's no Windows 7 Express :(
It's not free per se, but with Microsoft's BizSpark programme, you can get an MSDN (which includes all of their operating systems and development tools, and most of their office software) if you own a private company that is turning over less than $1,000,000 and less than 3 years old.
I think you have to pay $100 when the 3 year programme comes to an end.
http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/
If youre the lucky owner or is somehow involved in a small company, the Microsoft BizSpark programme is excellent. 3 years of free use of practically all MS software.
You can't, as that would cripple their business model. Free is an invitation that will get people to use that when they're learning, and hope to force them to use the software later, but paid.
There are, as suggested by Radu, a number of equally good, but different, alternatives (Eclipse, Code::Blocks, Netbeans, QtCreator).
You can use the Visual Studio compilers and tools through the Windows SDK, but that won't provide you with the IDE.
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I'm wanting to learn assembly programming and have found some great resources online, but the majority of them are oriented towards Linux users, DOS users, or use a high level assembler. I have no problem with Linux, but I just prefer Windows. Are there any resources (preferably online, but book is fine) that are oriented towards Windows users. I also would like it to give a strong explanation of the hardware.
To really learn the Intel/AMD processor, you may want to read from the source:
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectures-software-developer-manuals.html?iid=tech_vt_tech+64-32_manuals
This will give you everything you need to know about all the instructions. It won't tell you how to write code for your assembler, though. However, Intel uses the same syntax as Microsoft uses, so it should be a perfect match.
Note that AMD has similar books that you can also download. I prefer the Intel docs, but unless you want to use extensions from one of these brands, you'll be good with either one.
These books are free too.
Yes, get a book.
But you'll also want programming tools. Visual Studio Express for C and C++ includes ML, an x86 assembler, and a quite nice development environment. To my amazement, it is free. Guess MS is making tons of money on Word.
This suggests you should get a book that is focused on Microsoft assembler, often called "MASM" in spite of being filed under "ML.exe".
There's plenty of good info on the web. http://masm32.com/ for instance. Also, look up "wininc" (which can be used with jwasm). Microsoft's own online documentation is a bit challenging to search/read, but has all the details you'll need.
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Many years ago, the premier Windows installer tool was NSIS, from the makers of WinAmp. It was great because:
It was free
It was text-scriptable
It had a preprocessor, (!ifdef and !ifndef)
It was plugin-able, to add specialty features not included by NSIS out the door.
Now, NSIS fails to keep up with conventions, especially with security components of Windows 7. I saw a 3.0a1 release, but even these release notes were unreadable.
What are people using out there, to solve the problem of a Windows-installer? In particular, I'm looking for the same kinds of features listed above from NSIS, but are keeping up with Windows Vista, 7 and 8 installer standards?
The current alpha release has a problem with links in RTF files on the license page, other than that there are no real issues with 3.0a1 AFAIK.
The release notes are somewhat broken online because SourceForge keeps changing stuff but they are available in the help file if you install it. You can view the raw SVN release notes here.
2.4x added support for RequestExecutionLevel and 3.0 offers more control over DPI aware and the supported OS guids in the manifest, not sure what other NT6 stuff you believe are missing.
The premise of your question is false-- NSIS works fine with "security components" of Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. I use it for Fiddler, and it's used by untold thousands of other applications from small companies to the largest enterprises.
I don't know what you mean by "unreadable"-- the 3.0 release notes are perfectly reasonable. v3 addresses the only major limitation of NSIS2, lack of Unicode support. Now that this support is present, NSIS3 looks to be a fine choice of Windows Desktop installer for the foreseeable future.
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I use TFS at work which I am quite famililar with, I need a simple version of something similar that integrates into VS for my home hobby projects.
The only things I really need is :
Task lists, with detail pages where I can record info about how I might implement the task / test it.
Categorisation, prioritisation.
SVN / VS support so I can commit to SVN at the same time referencing the task.
I have tried using notepad and the tasks in VS but thats just too mimimal. And other solutions that cater for full agile/scrum are OTT.
Thanks.
Microsoft now provide "Visual Studio Team Services" (it was first released under the name "Team Foundation Service" and later renamed to "Visual Studio Online" and then renamed again recently). It provides most (perhaps all) of the facilities of TFS but in the cloud; actually in Azure which is Microsoft's own cloud. The system is free for up to five users.
Local Mantis BT (it's mainly bugtracker, but can be configured and used as to-do list|planner) with TortoiseMantis
Hosted Assembla (free) Space
You could try Trac and put all your tasks in those Trac tickets. The SVN cross-linking is excellent. First, have a look at the Trac playground to test it. If it makes you happy, there is a good Windows bundle called Bitnami Trac including all necessary tools, and it's for free and easy to install. Also check out the Trac homepage.
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maybe my question is silly, but i cannot find satisfy answer towards google,
I am trying to be a freelance programmer and create commercial use application using newest visual studio and sell it.
I try to be legal but end up confused, what type of microsoft visual studio should i use or buy?
I would first say: refer to the license for the product you wish to use, and potentially get proper legal advice based off the license in question.
That being said... You can use any version of Visual Studio, including the free "Express Editions", to create a commercial software product.
The "higher end" versions add a lot of features, such as code analysis, etc - but even the free versions do not prevent making and selling software.
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Are there any light weight tools (preferably portable so I can put it in a memory stick) that can compile C# code snippets? I don't want to load Visual Studio, create a project and all to test a small code snippet.
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How about http://rextester.com/rundotnet?
This is online - so always available - downsides are it's a little slow, so good for trying out simple things quickly - not so great if you're doing anything more complex.
Alternatively if you want an offline approach try Linq Pad
http://www.linqpad.net/
Although it was primarily created to debug LINQ statements - it actually works as a great lightweight general purpose IDE.
SnippetCompiler would be one, though it hasn't been updated for a while so could be out of date.
Edit: See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2775055/looking-for-replacement-for-snippet-compiler for more up-to-date alternatives
I have created a lightweight version of Visual Studio. It is essentially just the
packages required to get MSBuild.exe working.
The installer is a PowerShell script that sets the necessary variables, registry
keys and files.
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