Where is Visual Studio 2005 Express?

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Spoike picture Spoike · Apr 23, 2009 · Viewed 74.6k times · Source

I'm working on a project that requires Visual Studio 2005 and I've been trying to find a legitimate download site for Visual Studio 2005 Express, but it seems like Microsoft only wants people to download the 2008 version instead.

Anyone knows why it's like this and if there is some link somewhere where Visual Studio 2005 Express is available?

Answer

thijs picture thijs · Apr 23, 2009

Here are more links: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Vsexpressvcs/thread/290fb587-1447-466c-9149-a692fa5de34d They seem to point to the same files.

The direct download link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=51411&clcid=0x409

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