Microsoft made the “Express” announcements at the start of its European TechEd event in Amsterdam. The company was also expected to hand out beta 1 of Visual Studio 2005 and beta 2 of SQL ...

Microsoft posted on April 18, 2006 the RTM version of Service Pack 1 for SQL Server 2005 Developer, Workgroup, Standard, Enterprise, and Express editions. Get the lowdown on SP-1's added features, ...

Microsoft is expected this week to release the first beta of its Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 software development products. The software giant also plans to announce a low-cost edition ...

The Standard Edition will run $299, or $199 for an upgrade, and the Express Edition will cost $49, Microsoft said. The current Visual Studio .Net Professional Edition now retails for $1,079.

Because of broad customer demand to work with these prerelease products today, Microsoft also announced the Microsoft Go-Live license program for customers interested in deploying Visual Studio 2005 ...

SQL Server 2005 Express does both. Express editions of SQL Server Management Studio are management tools that offer a graphical interface to work with SQL Server databases.

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition will replace Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine as the software maker's lightweight database offering of choice.

For example, one main feature is that data devs no longer have to switch back and forth between SQL Server Management Studio and Visual Studio, working entirely in the latter. The September 2012 ...

In addition, during Tech•Ed Australia, attendees will get to hear how Team Dystopia created its modification for “Half-Life 2” with Visual C++. Microsoft’s Visual Studio® Express Edition products, ...

Final versions of all the Express products are due out with the final release of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005, expected in the first half of next year.