{"id":14731,"date":"2006-11-09T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/webdev\/2006\/11\/09\/visual-web-developer-express-turns-one\/"},"modified":"2006-11-09T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T17:38:00","slug":"visual-web-developer-express-turns-one-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/visual-web-developer-express-turns-one-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Web Developer Express turns one!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>This week marks the first anniversary of Visual Studio 2005 and the Express editions.&nbsp; Almost a year ago to the day &#8211; 11\/7\/2005 to be precise &#8211; was the day we launched Visual Studio 2005.&nbsp;&nbsp;That also marked the debut&nbsp;of the free Express Editions that have since proven to be a huge hit in the developer community.&nbsp;&nbsp;We&#8217;ve had over 7 million downloads of the Express editions to date and over 1.8 million of them have been Visual Web Developer Express!&nbsp; After 30 days of usage, we ask you to register the product &#8211; we have nearly 1 million registered Express users today.&nbsp; We&#8217;d like to take this opportunity to thank you for the great support and feedback you have provided to help us build a better product for you.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As you know, we are currently on the next version of Visual Studio, code-named &#8220;Orcas&#8221;.&nbsp; A lot of you have already provided great feedback to date on what you&#8217;d like to see in the product and that is helping us shape the product.&nbsp; If you have further feedback, now is the time to do so.&nbsp; <span>You can go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/feedback\/default.aspx?SiteID=210\">Visual Studio feedback center<\/a> to file your suggestion or bug.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Finally, if you haven&#8217;t checked out the free Visual Web Developer Express &#8211; the best tool for building ASP.NET 2.0 web applications &#8211; you can get it <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/vstudio\/express\/vwd\/\">here<\/a>&nbsp;today.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Thank you!<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week marks the first anniversary of Visual Studio 2005 and the Express editions.&nbsp; Almost a year ago to the day &#8211; 11\/7\/2005 to be precise &#8211; was the day we launched Visual Studio 2005.&nbsp;&nbsp;That also marked the debut&nbsp;of the free Express Editions that have since proven to be a huge hit in the developer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":58792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[4,7265,31,7267,7268],"class_list":["post-14731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aspnet","tag-net","tag-announcements","tag-asp-net","tag-vwd","tag-web"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>This week marks the first anniversary of Visual Studio 2005 and the Express editions.&nbsp; Almost a year ago to the day &#8211; 11\/7\/2005 to be precise &#8211; was the day we launched Visual Studio 2005.&nbsp;&nbsp;That also marked the debut&nbsp;of the free Express Editions that have since proven to be a huge hit in the developer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}