  Past June 29, Microsoft released the a new product line of the Visual Studio Family: urlLink Visual Studio Express 2005 . This beta release consists of urlLink Visual Basic 2005 Express , urlLink Visual C# 2005 Express , urlLink Visual C++ 2005 Express , urlLink Visual J# Express , urlLink Visual WebDev 2005 Express and urlLink SQL Server 2005 Express .
The Visual Basic, C#, C++ and J# 2005 Express products allow us to build WinForms applications and console based applications as well as class libraries. The Visual WebDev 2005 is focused on web development, pretty much as a WebMatrix update,allowing you to use your choice language to build rapidly powerful web applications and web services. Finally we can experiment a bit of the power of the next release of SQL Server (codename Yukon) with the SQL Server 2005 Express, an empowered version of MSDE. Each product beta is distributed online or cd/dvd. The online distribution is based on a small pre-loader. As an example, the Visual Basic 2005 Express installer took 25 mb for the .Net Framework 2.0, almost 128 mb for MSDN Express and SQL Server 2005 Express each one.
You can choose wherter install or not install MSDN and SQL Server. I loved the new IDE, the new Run-Pause-FixCode-Continue feature is awesome, the value inspector's are great. I'll be posting some photos, examples and tips on the 2005 Express products. Links urlLink Visual Studio Express 2005 urlLink Visual Basic 2005 Express urlLink Visual C# 2005 Express urlLink Visual C++ 2005 Express urlLink Visual J# Express urlLink Visual WebDev 2005 Express urlLink SQL Server 2005 Express 
