Visual Studio Express is going to be replaced by this new free offering. An un-neutered version of Visual Studio with far fewer strings attached.
..................That you can see on the upper surface or maybe decipher from the upper sub surface. The legalese in the EULA doesn't even expose all that you're agreeing to with most all free applications. It's a dotcom.....that means it's there to make money. The word "free" on the internet or for cell aps is just another way of selling your soul to huge data base. (that can easily be subpena by any guv agency that wants it) It's a great piece of bait though. It's a sad sad thing what computing and cell coms have become. And they used to laugh at me when I used to say the "big brother is watching". Now it's not just the man that's watching, it's everyone that endeavors to make a buck too.
There is one point that I REALLY don't like about VS 2013! After a WXWidgets disaster, I decided to uninstall VS and go back to GCC and Code Blocks. That's when I discovered just how... MESSY and DISJOINTED Visual Studio's installation was. I spent all afternoon finding and uninstalling all the crap that VS installed SEPARATELY. Even bits and pieces of Visual Studio itself was separate installs. Then there is all the crap that is left behind afterward, in the filesystem and in the registry. three sweeps of the filesystem, and FIVE sweeps of the registry, with alternating regedit and ccleaner sweeps, and I FINALLY had the last of it cleared out... maybe? At least Code Blocks and Mingw are easy to clear out. I did switch from the old regular MingW32 to TDM's Mingw-W64. Edit: If I were to do a comparison, it would be getting out a gaggle of those little microscopic deer-ticks, dug in all over my body, with some in places I can't see too well.
I hear you there. I've been rooting out some old installs lately and some are insidiously well dug in. Then there's the wife that's always playing "free" games.................. There's always something on her machine that needs rooted out (trojans and worms). If I were to do a comparison (when I hear the word "free"): it's like that word is the go-to bait for data fishing and I want to grow up to be a wiley huge lunker . So it's a bait to be avoided.
