On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 19:24 -0400, Kevin Fields wrote: > I recently (meaning today) found out that Microsoft is releasing their > Visual C++ 2003 IDE for free. Huh, interesting. I can think of several reasons to do it. I can spin theories all day! The cost of MS development tools has been the reason that things like OpenWatcom and DevC++ have become so popular. And, I have heard that the cost of MS development tools is one of the things driving adoption of Linux in governments and in third world countries. OTOH, Bill Gates just committed $750 million to vaccinating children world wide. May be he is just feeling generous this week. > Not sure if anyone else knew about that, but > here're the links. I just thought I'd inform people. Is that the latest version of VC++? Or an older version? > > Visual C++ 2003 - http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/ > Visual C++ 2003 Debugger - http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/ddk/debugging/ > > That's right, MS has decided to NOT include the debugger with the VC++ 2003 > toolkit. No idea why they did that. But, oh well. At least it's free now. Are they charging for the debugger? > > Kevin Bob Pendleton > > > > > --------------------- > To unsubscribe go to http://gameprogrammer.com/mailinglist.html > > > --------------------- To unsubscribe go to http://gameprogrammer.com/mailinglist.html