The Visual Studio 2005 Product Line Overview provides a feature-by-feature comparison of the Express products, Visual Studio Professional Edition and Visual Studio Team System. Please note that this list is not comprehensive and is subject to change.

Hey everyone, Thanks so much for patience on the Express download and installation issues. We have now posted prescriptive download guidance and direct download links which will enable you to download and install individual components and install offline...

Read how Brad Abrams extends the Visual C# Express RSS Screen Saver Starter Kit to include referrals from his blog . Brad writes: “... I extended the screensaver by adding a new area that displays the most current 100 referrals from google in...

Manual setup instructions to download/install the individual packages for Express Products will soon be available. <link> We would like to understand the reason you need to go through the manual steps to install our products. Please reply to...

We have published the new web setup installers for Express SKUs. The new versions of installers should resolve the majority of the download issues we have seen reported. Please give it a try! Please read the know issues docuement before you start the...

Hi-- This is a quick note to let you know that we've heard all your feedback about the Web download & setup and we're looking into what improvements/fixes we can make. Thanks for all your feedback and patience here. We'll keep you informed. ...