VS 6.0 (Where can i download it?)

Senallron · Post by **Senallron** » Mon May 12, 2003 2:48 am

Heh.....this is probably a stupid question

, but is VS 6.0 available for download free on this site or others? If so, where at? Thanks in advance

Wishbringer · Post by **Wishbringer** » Mon May 12, 2003 4:30 am

Buy it!
Get it from local vendor or amazon or else...
There is no "free" version of VS 6.0 or VS.net
or help developing MQ for Dev-C++ (this is freeware)...

maq0r · Post by **maq0r** » Mon May 12, 2003 6:43 am

This is not the place to ask, you shouldn't be asking for warez here.

Go get it in your local Best buy.

Non M$ Coder · Post by **Non M$ Coder** » Mon May 12, 2003 10:08 am

There is, I think, a free command line .net from Micro$oft, but I don't know too much about it, (avoiding their IDE's whenever possible). Apparently, people are building free IDE's on top of the free command line version. So, there may be a free and legitimate way to compile MQ.

Mckorr · Post by **Mckorr** » Mon May 12, 2003 11:55 am

From http://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/cpp.shtml

Free Microsoft .NET Framework Software Development Kit / Free Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler

Unbelievably, the Microsoft Visual C/C++ command line compiler, along with C#, VB.NET and JScript.NET, appears to be available from Microsoft for download for free. (Note that if you use the Opera web browser to go to this URL, set Opera to pretend that it is Mozilla (just hit F12 and select Mozilla 5.0), otherwise Microsoft's web server will redirect you to a dummy page. Their browser detection script, which serves different pages to different browsers, is broken.) You will also need to download the Microsoft Platform SDK which contains the Windows headers and libraries for the compilers. The command line compiler is the same one that comes with the commercial Visual C++ Standard, which means that it does not have an optimizer (or at least, not the optimizer that ships with the Professional version).

Mckorr · Post by **Mckorr** » Mon May 12, 2003 12:08 pm

Now there's an interesting project: create an IDE that does a CVS checkout from Sourceforge, allows you to edit the downloaded files, and then calls the command line compiler to create the binaries. Sort of an MQ only compiler using Microsoft's free command line compiler for .NET.

dont_know_at_all · Post by **dont_know_at_all** » Mon May 12, 2003 3:13 pm

You mean like cmd.exe + notepad.exe + nmake.exe?

If you are clever, all you need is gvim or emacs.

Non M$ Coder · Post by **Non M$ Coder** » Mon May 12, 2003 4:29 pm

What I was referring to with the IDE development is that there are, AFAIK, currently efforts to build complete IDE's built on top of the free command line compiler which would be competition to VSxx. That's pretty cool in my book! There are some mighty fine IDE's out there for free, and some, like eclipse (www.eclipse.org) are pretty incredible. Maybe I will try to DL that stuff this weekend and see how easy it is to build with it.

dont_know_at_all · Post by **dont_know_at_all** » Mon May 12, 2003 4:53 pm

If nmake is not available with the tools available above for free, I will create a makefile for the GNU make which does the build.

Gengis · Post by **Gengis** » Tue May 13, 2003 5:27 am

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Mckorr · Post by **Mckorr** » Tue May 13, 2003 9:13 am

I did some searching. I can find free IDE's for C-sharp and J(sharp?), but nothing for C++ .NET. Would love to take a look at one if someone finds one.