So, MS have made their website almost impossible to use.
I wanted to trial MSVC 2005 via download option, which their website says is available.
I look all over their confusing website, filling in form after form,
going in circles to try to find it. Eventually I see the sign saying
'you must be registered to download'. It doesn't help when your country
list doesn't contain the UK! You got the US and all sorts of countries,
but not England/
So I register, spending ages filling in their forms, to find out that actually it WON'T let me download after all!
So i try filling in the forms for getting a trial DVD. Well, apparantly
your 'free trial' costs 8. 8 What exactly, I do not know, because your
stupid website didn't tell me what those 8s were.
I gave up on that option, for all I know it could be 8 gold bars. Besides, I wanted somehting quick and easy.
So I gave up, but as luck would have it I came across a wiki page saying that MS express C++ is downloadable online!
Wow, maybe that's a simple solution to getting this tested / Well, nope.
I have to navigate through a huge website, eventually, by guesswork I
find myself at the /install/support directory. Why I should need
support to install my msvc before even being given a download link is
beyond me.
At this page, I am told that 'the best way to download express is to use the download now button that is on every page'.
Ah yes, the 'download now' button, that is on every page except that I can see it on NO PAGES AT ALL!!!!!!!!!
:(
Stupid MicroSoft.
Thanks for making what normally is a 2 minute-max search and download
operation on other sites to download their free software, into a 90
minute exasperation.
It's like you spend so much effort trying to look professional and no effort being intelligent.
Almost Impossible to download!!!
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ChrisNickel
I'm sorry to hear you've had such trouble. I admit I've never tried to get a trial of VS2005, although I was sent a few while it was in beta, but the express editions are easy enough to download that this forum is full of people who have done so and are asking questions about it.
I would pre-empt another frustration by pointing out that the C++ Express Edition does not support MFC, if that's what you want it for.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/
This was the first hit in my google search. The download now button is on the right hand side, near the top.
dpreston
That page seems to have a download now button, the ones I visited before didn't.
I do want to do MFC coding. So I can't use express to do that I guess I gotta just get the trial DVD then.
Ruxming
No, you can't. I can see why Microsoft want to hold some stuff back from the free versions, I guess it's unfortunate that C++ makes it easy to do that, by withholding MFC. You can install a PSDK and do C API programming, but not MFC.