# Get Visual Studio 2005 for FREE

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**Created:** [November 8, 2005, 3:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/get-visual-studio-2005-for-free/168548 "2005-11-08T03:06:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sinister\_Shadow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sinister\_Shadow](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sinister_Shadow)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2005, 3:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/get-visual-studio-2005-for-free/168548/1 "2005-11-08T03:06:25Z")

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Microsoft are offering Visual Studio 2005 Express editions for free if you get hold of them before November 6th 2006! After that date it will cost $49 to get hold of it but if you already have it you don’t need to pay a penny. There are no limitations so you could use it for commercial work too!

[http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express)

For manual installation go to:  
[http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/install](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/install)