Questions regarding Microsoft Visual Studio?

Question

So basically, I'm taking a college course in which my professor wants us to have Microsoft Visual Studio. He "suggests" that we use it, but we can use any other similar program (at the risk of him being possibly unable to help us if we need it).

Since I'm taking the course online and don't have direct interaction with my professor like much of my class, I'm thinking it's smarter to stick to his suggestion and find Visual Studio. Here's my dilemma: I normally work on a Mac, but I've got an old laptop that's running XP so I plan to use that for my course. The free trial for Visual Studio 2012 (any type) does not work with XP though, so I'm trying to figure out how to get Visual Studio for my laptop. Honestly, even a free trial works for me, I'm not ready to shell out the money for a full version of the software just yet because this is just a starter course.

So does anyone know what version of Visual Studio would work with XP, and if there are free trials of the software hosted elsewhere? Otherwise, does anyone know of programs that are equal in all aspects to Visual Studio?

Answer 1

There are free versions called Visual Studio Express. What you can try is to go online to Microsoft with XP and it should detect the OS and direct you to versions that run on XP. Right now every thing is for Windows 7 and you might try finding the Express and/or Visual Studio 2010. If you want to try another programming IDE, then Java has Netbeans and versions for C++ using Mac. Java programming can run on any system

Answer 2

I am in two college courses that are using Visual studio to design C++ Programs and windows forms.

It is recommended that we use Visual studio and through our college we actually get a free full version of visual studio but I am not always on my laptop or at the school when I would like to do my programming.



The answer to your question is that there is a free alternate and useful coding tool called Bloodshed Devcpp. It lets you create and run programs designed in the C language and can be found here:



http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html

There is also a portable version that I use personally and I can boot from my usb with it and it stays persistent.



There is also another free coding tool called Notepad++ that codes in various languages and is very useful found here:

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v6.1.8.html

Answer 3

Get Visual Studio : Visual Studio 2008 Trial Version -http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3713



Which gives you a 90 day trial edition of Visual Studio Professional.

Or a trial version of Team Suite is available here - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12898



you can get the express for free - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12898





here are 2012 updates - http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads



see the requirement specs to check the compatibility with your system

Answer 4

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