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Katana License Lifts Windows-only Restriction

July 24, 2013 Jul 24, 2013 07/24/13
howard dierking - MSFT
(cross-posted from http://codebetter.com/howarddierking/2013/07/23/katana-license-lifts-windows-only-restriction/) Over the past few months, a great deal of attention has been paid to the following clause used in most of the licenses associated with the NuGet packages that we and other teams at Microsoft ship.   “ a. Distribution ...

Visual Web Developer 2010 Express has Arrived!

April 12, 2010 Apr 12, 2010 04/12/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express is a free and robust development environment for building, testing and deploying Web applications across the Microsoft Web Platform including ASP.Net, Internet Information Services and SQL Server. Unleash your creativity with powerful design surfaces for building standards-based Web applications and ...

Pre-Order Visual Studio 2010 Professional upgrade today, and save hundreds

March 11, 2010 Mar 11, 2010 03/11/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional will launch on April 12 but you can beat the rush and secure your copy today by pre-ordering at the affordable estimated retail price of $549, a saving of $250. If you use a previous version of Visual Studio or any other development tool then you are eligible for this upgrade. Along with all the great...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – Web Tools Overview

October 21, 2009 Oct 21, 2009 10/21/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 has officially shipped! If you haven’t already, download a copy from here. (image) What New with Visual Studio If you are new to Visual Studio 2010 please check out all our previous blogs to get a understanding of all the changes we made for Beta 1 including this intro blog on beta 1: http://blogs.msdn.com/...

Software for building and hosting web sites at no cost for 3 years!

September 24, 2009 Sep 24, 2009 09/24/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
(image) I’m excited to announce – WebsiteSpark – a new program from Microsoft that provides software and support for building web sites, at no cost for 3 years. What You Get Software: WebsiteSpark provides software licenses that you can use for 3 years at no upfront cost (there is only an exit fee of $100 payable upon exit from the ...