Visual Studio 2008 - free license

Question

Please, does anybody know, if there is some free license for Visual Studio 2008 for academic purposes? I am working on a paper for my university about C++ source code analysis tools and one of those is integrated into Visual Studio 2008. Unfortunately, my 3-months trial period of Visual Studio 2008 Professional has expired, so I can´t use Visual Studio anymore, but I still need it in order to use the integrated analysis tool. A time limited license would be also a great option. Thank you.

Answer 1

Some schools have an agreement with MS to provide free licenses to their students or at very low prices. You should talk to someone at your University about that. An alternative is the DreamSpark initiative, if you are in a country that is covered by it: https://www.dreamspark.com/default.aspx

Finally you can allways use the express editions.

PS: You can allways try also the Trials. check downloads at http://msdn.microsoft.com

Answer 2

I used the trial, but its just for 3 months, so the free license has already expired. Maybe I can try to download Visual 2005, if I can still get it, it might have some trial period as well.

Answer 3

Hello Dejvid,

You may look at the dreamspark to see if you can get the free licence of Visual Studio, and as Joao mentioned, you could try utilizing Visual C++ Express Edition to see if it could work for your case.

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Answer 4

Oh la

Yes

dreamspark

They require you to reply back with valid

college e-mail address

say

something that ends with

mycollege.edu

They the reply back with appropriate link.


cheers

noel

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and
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support open source
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makes money with
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Answer 5

Because the question is a license issue, you also can call 1-800-426-9400, Monday through Friday, 6:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. (Pacific Time) to speak directly to a Microsoft licensing specialist, and you can get more detail information from there. Worldwide customers can use the Guide to Worldwide Microsoft Licensing Sites to find contact information in their locations.

_http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/index/worldwide.mspx

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