- surprisingly enough, Visual Studio Express 2005 .NET is [schild=4 fontcolor=000000 shadowcolor=C0C0C0 shieldshadow=1]FREE![/schild]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/default.aspx - Direct link - download and install Visual C# 2005 Express Edition:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/expre ... fault.aspx
You can even download it together with the MS SQL Server 2005 Express Edition for free. It takes several hundred MBs - Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition:
If you grow out of the SQL Server Express.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... layLang=en - Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... 0F62BF7796 - Borland Turbo C# - the "Explorer" version is free:
http://www.turboexplorer.com/csharphome.htm - Microsoft C# developers site:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/ - Free 224 pages book in Adobe Acrobat format by Microsoft Press:
Build a progam now - Visual C#.NET 2005
download it in the downloads section >> books - Free C#.NET learning videos directly from Microsoft:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/expre ... fault.aspx - Visual C# Express edition forums:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowFo ... 0&SiteID=1 - Tons of Visual Studio .NET learning materials:
http://www.learnvisualstudio.net/
Mathematics and statistics class libraries:
http://www.extremeoptimization.com/Math ... fault.aspx
Microsoft uses C#.NET internally for developing the .NET platform. That alone speaks volumes.
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