Microsoft Visual Studio Standard 2005 [OLD VERSION]

List Price: $299.00 Discount Price: $198.00

Features:

• Ideal for the part-time or occasional developer to develop and deploy client-server based Windows, Web, SmartPhone, and Pocket PC applications
• Support for Visual Basic, C#, C++, and J# languages
• "Drag and drop" user interface designers for virtually every type of application; Master Pages support for maintaining a consistent look and feel across Web applications
• Includes a built-in Web server for testing Web applications, IIS is not needed; integrated SQL Reporting Services
• Edit and Continue for simple, intuitive debugging; integrated ClickOnce support

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Customer Reviews:

Reports could be improved [Posted on 2007-05-31]
When I loaded Visual Studio the SQL Server component did not load correctly - only the Configuration manager loaded - on reading the reports on the procedure I was informed that my computer was below the minimum hardware requirements, this despite me running a 2 GHz machine with 512 RAM and plenty of disc space.

A little bit more granularity might help me locate the problem.

Decent Product, Steep Learning Curve [Posted on 2007-06-07]
This product was good, but not great. It's a bit sluggish at times, even running with plenty of available resources (e.g. when it's the only thing running on a box with a gig of ram and a decent processor). It also has a fairly steep learning curve. Once you know how to do things it's great, but when you don't you stumble a lot. A lot of the features, while powerful, aren't very intuitive. My primary IDE before this was Eclipse, so I was already accustomed to another IDE that handles things differently a lot of the time. Some things MVS did better; some things Eclipse did better. In the end, as I've said before, it's a good product, but not great. A little rough around the edges. When it boils down to it if your development environment is MS, this is probably the product for you.

Visual Studio 2005 Rocks [Posted on 2007-06-18]
Awesome IDE. I appreciate using it daily. Beats using Xemacs in my real job, hands down.

A Development Standard Tool [Posted on 2007-09-17]
Any serious or amature developer should be required to use and know Microsoft Visual Studio Standard 2005. I know there are a lot of super-geeks out there who love to hate on Microsoft and prefer to stick to "real" or open source code that isn't dominated by the MS Juggernaught.

Those feelings aside- the reality of the world is that most companies use Microsoft software and server implementations in real world business, and Microsoft does provide the tools to get that work done. If you are at all interested in .NET, J#, C++, or ASP; this tool is the way to go. I was also happily surprised to learn that Visual Studio also can help code other documents like XHTML, XML, HTML, and CSS, which is really nice when you have to pay this much for the product.

Seriously though, if you are buying this for yourself, buy the Standard edition, let whoever you work for buy you the professional edition.

Excellent experience with this tool [Posted on 2007-11-27]
Used this version for a 150,000 line code base of desktop applications. Very very happy with it. Of course, there are many "wish it did X" items, but it is overall I am very pleased. After SP1, almost never have IDE crashes or other non-user code problems.

Still wondering why anyone would buy the Pro edition vise this (Std) edition for $350 more..

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