Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 - free
 

https://www.getthebetas.com/

This is a must have if you're a windows developer :thumbsup

too bad the site wont take my address wtf

weird just didnt like the one address, worked fine on a diff one. you'd think ms would be able to code a better address checker..

nice I ordered one, thanks :thumbsup

it looks like they contracted someone else to handle it

bah
 

I was suckered into spending 1.xx grand on that .Net crap
and crap it is
still in VB6

Yeah I still like VB6 better too...

still...I ordered the beta ;)

you are saying VB6 > .NET?

..

;)

Bleh... .NET has so many benefits over VB6

Anyone come accross a downloadable version of this?

Its US only I think for the disks :(

you can download VS2005 if you're a MSDN subscriber, otherwise, you can download the "express" versions from http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/ . they're just stripped down versions of vs2005, and you're restricted to only Debug builds

That's not a scam site? Or am I the only one that suspects that?

I kinda suspected that as well, but it's linked from Microsoft's site http://msdn.microsoft.com/getthebetas/country/

either way, they're not asking for any CC details or anything