Visual Studio 2005 Express Beta Products

At Tech-Ed Europe on June 29, 2004, Microsoft announced the Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1. Along with this Beta 1, Microsoft announced an interesting and fascinating addition to the Visual Studio 2005 family: “Express Products”.

The Express Beta products consist of:

• Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition: A small size (50 MB or smaller) tool to develop dynamic Web sites and Web services.

• Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition, Visual C# 2005 Express Edition, Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition, and Visual J# 2005 Express Edition: A lightweight programming tools to develop Windows Forms applications, console applications and class libraries targeted for beginners.

• SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (SQL Server Express) is an user-friendly version of SQL Server 2005 designed for building simple, dynamic applications.