The MSDN Express Library contains additional product documentation and code samples for all Visual Studio Express Editions

The MSDN 2008 Express Edition Library is available as an optional component in the Visual Studio Express installers. If you choose to install the MSDN Express Library at a later time, you will need to rerun the Express installers to add the MSDN Express Library. There is no separate download available for the MSDN Express Library.

The Express Editions include forum support. Please go to the Visual C++ 2008 Express Forum to post your question.

The Express products are not officially supported. But you may find help by posting your question in the Visual Basic 2008 Express Forum .

SQL Server Express is covered under standard Microsoft support policies and will receive no-charge basic install and set up support. For assistance with other questions, please use the following support options: We have created Express Edition Forums where you can get help from other people using the Express Editions, including Microsoft product team members. If your organization has Premier support contracts, you can use those for assistance with VS express products.

Visual Basic 2008 Express is designed for hobbyists, first-time developers, and students looking for a fun and easy way to build Windows applications.

Visual C# 2008 Express is designed for hobbyists, first-time developers, and students looking for a fun and easy way to build Windows applications.

Visual Web Developer 2008 Express is a stand-alone, lightweight, easy-to-use Web-focused tool for building ASP.NET 3.5 applications. It includes everything you need to begin building Web applications, including a built-in development/test Web server.

Visual Web Developer 2008 Express is intended for non-professional, hobbyists, students and beginning Web developers who want to learn how to build ASP.NET 3.5 Web applications.

MSDN Subscriber Downloads is a benefit limited to MSDN Subscribers. The MSDN Online Library contains the latest information on Microsoft technologies and is free to the public at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/. An MSDN Subscriber can participate in both sites.

The MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005 provides access to legacy documentation via the MSDN Online search provider, accessible from the Search page. Access to legacy documentation is also available on earlier editions of the MSDN Library installed on your computer.

Worldbooks and other supplements that feature settings will be fine, save for the few pages of rules that such books include. Genre books (such as Cyberpunk and Space) will be fine for the non-rules sections (which, in many cases, is 75% or more of the book!). Rulebooks (like Magic and Vehicles) will be mostly obsolete. Sorry about that, but it would not make sense to update only some of the rules if we're doing a whole new edition!

Creating a new edition is an easy process if your OPAC is already supported. It mainly involves branding: changing the name of library catalog, OpenURL resolver, and off-campus proxy (if applicable). You can do it yourself by visiting our edition builder interface. (Documentation is forthcoming.) If you want to create and host an edition entirely by yourself, you have to be familiar with CVS and you must work in a Unix-like environment, such as cygwin on Windows, Linux, or Mac OSX.

Solaris Express Developer Edition is a quarterly release of an OpenSolaris-based distribution from Sun. It is targeted for developers creating Solaris, Java, and Web 2.0 applications. Solaris Express Developer Edition 5/07 is the second release in this program. The primary components of the 5/07 release are: Includes the latest enhancements and technologies not yet released in Solaris 10, for example, GNOME 2.16 desktop, Thunderbird, Firefox, StarOffice 8, and various open source components.

This is the free version of the Oracle 10g Database. Express Edition is free to download, develop and deploy with any application. In our case, we can bundle ALCiE Complimentary Edition with this free Oracle Database to deliver a zero-cost accounting solution! Click here to view the Oracle Database Express Edition data sheet. The great thing about ALCiE CE is that it is the identical set of applications as those contained in ALCiE SME (Small and Mid-sized Enterprise) Edition.

You do not need to have an internet connection to watch video clips. Many school computers do not allow for streaming video over the internet.

Visual Basic 2008 Express can be used to build Windows applications, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications, console and reusable components and controls. If you want to create interactive Web sites, you should use Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition which fully supports the Visual Basic language.

Visual Basic 2008 Express includes a migration wizard that will help import existing Visual Basic 6.0 projects. You may need to make some manual adjustments to the code you port over, but the migration wizard is a good first step towards moving your code forward.

Visual C# 2008 Express can be used to build Windows applications, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications, console and reusable components and controls. If you want to create interactive Web sites, you should use Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition which fully supports the Visual C# language.

Yes. The ability to target different versions of the .NET framework (i.e. multi-targeting) is available in Visual Web Developer 2008 through the Project Properties menu.

Visual Web Developer 2008 Express supports development with Visual Basic and Visual C#. Visual Web Developer 2008 Express also includes rich editors for HTML, XML, JavaScript and Cascade Style Sheets (CSS).

No. Visual Web Developer 2008 Express comes with a built-in Web development server that enables you to build and test applications without a dependency on IIS. The server only accepts local requests and is only for build and test. Web applications built with Visual Web Developer can easily be deployed to IIS or your favorite hoster using the built-in copy Web tool.

The 2008 DVD Edition does not require an internet connection to view all volume contents including over 70 video clips while the 2007 Online Edition requires a high speed internet connection. The 2008 DVD Edition includes additional Violin Virtuosi performance videos and some updated contents. The 2007 Online Edition includes a PDF Version of the text, Chat Rooms, Teachers Forums, and a Marketplace with exclusive discounts at the WHLEE Online Store.

Visual Basic 2008 Express includes a migration wizard that will help import existing Visual Basic 2005 Express projects. You may need to make some manual adjustments to the code you port over, but the migration wizard is a good first step towards moving your code forward.

Unfortunately not, since the Visual Studio Express Edition has a limited support for extensibility that does not match the tight integration needs of Mainsoft for Java EE. You need to install Visual Studio Standard or Professional Edition to use Mainsoft for Java EE.