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A free Visual Studio 2005

18 Apr 2007 4:55 #1868

Not Sure how many people will be interested

but I have just down loaded the SQL server 2005 toolkit from here

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/sql/download/

within this download there is a package called

Business Intelligence Development Studio

this is a full version of visual studio with no components added ie no compilers just a tool for creating reports in a SQL server database.

having installed this

if one installs FTN95

the compiler is able to integrate into this verison of Visual Studio

and I can now compile FTN95 from within this free version VS 2005

this is not the case when installing say Visual c# express 2005 when no further compoents are able to be added.

The toolkit is 250MB and may be you don't want it (but I did and the FTN95 was pleasant surprise)

hope someone finds this useful

18 Apr 2007 8:42 #1870

Nice find!

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