Visual Studio 2005 Express joins SQL Server Express in Microsoft’s portfolio of entry-level free, lightweight, easy-to-use, and easy-to-learn tools.
Intended for hobbyist, novice, and student developers, the Express editions have limited functionally and streamlined user interfaces.
However, their licenses do allow commercial deployment.
Something that caught my eye was all of the Visual Studio Express programming-language varieties are included in the download package: Visual Basic 2005 Express, Visual C# 2005 Express, Visual C++ 2005 Express and Visual J# 2005 Express.
Visual Basic 2005 Express is available for download at Microsoft’s Web site.
