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Visual Studio 2005 - Experience the difference.

The difference is obvious: Get the Trials now

Visual Studio 2005 provides a range of tools that offer many benefits for individual developers and software development teams:

  • Be more productive and obtain faster results
  • Build dynamic Windows, Web, mobile, and Office-based solutions
  • Communicate and collaborate more effectively within your software teams
  • Ensure quality early and often throughout the development process

Get the trial versions and enjoy the power of our integrated development environment. Trial versions contain all of the functionality of the regular version but can only be used for a limited time. At the end of your trial you may simply activate your product without re-installing.

You can even try Visual Studio without complex setup or installation in the full-featured MSDN Virtual Lab.

Try the Visual Studio Team System Hosted Experience
The Online Hosted Experience will help you evaluate Visual Studio 2005 without having to install anything on your local machine. It includes the MSDN Virtual Labs, a series of guided, hands-on labs which can be completed in under an hour. A fast Internet connection is required.

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How to upgrade your Visual Studio 2005 Trial version

All customers

If you purchase a retail box, you can upgrade from your trial without uninstalling by using the product key provided.

Visual Studio Team Suite customers

If you purchase through Volume Licensing you should contact your local Microsoft Customer Services centre to obtain a product key which will enable you to upgrade without uninstalling.

SQL and Visual Studio Professional customers

If you purchase through Volume Licensing you will have to uninstall the trial and then install the full product to upgrade.

The following trials are available for order.

Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite 180-Day DVD Trial (includes SQL Server 2005 and Team Foundation Server)

Productive, integrated, and extensible software lifecycle tools that help software development teams by improving communication and collaboration throughout the development process.

Localized versions are now available in French, German, Italian and Spanish

Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition 180-Day Trial

Professional development tools for individual programmers or those working in small teams who are building smart client, Web, mobile, or Microsoft Office-based applications.

Localized versions are now available in French, German, Italian and Spanish

SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition 180-Day DVD Evaluation

SQL Server 2005 is a next-generation data management and analysis solution.

Localized versions are now available in French, German, Italian and Spanish

Microsoft Developer Security Resource Kit

The new Microsoft Developer Security Resource Kit brings together a host of valuable references and resources for developing more secure applications.

Visual Studio 2005 Accelerator Kit

This kit includes a collection of useful technical information to help Visual Studio 2005 developers become productive as quickly as possible. Included on this DVD: Refactor!, a free book - Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 for Developers, over 240 Corbis images, code samples, guided tours, guidelines on upgrading existing Visual Basic and ASP code, multimedia presentations, technical articles, and other useful material.

Windows Mobile 5.0 Developer Resource Kit

With the Windows Mobile 5.0 Developer Resource Kit, you'll have everything you need to start developing for Windows Mobile 2003 and Windows Mobile 5.0 based devices.

These trials are available for download

Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server 180 day Trial Edition

Visual Studio Team Foundation offers organizations an extensible team collaboration server that enables all members of the extended IT team to effortlessly manage and track the progress and health of projects.

The following localised trial versions of the Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server are available for download*, select your preferred version:

*Registration is required for downloading.

Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite 180-Day DVD Trial (includes SQL Server 2005 and Team Foundation Server)

Productive, integrated, and extensible software lifecycle tools that help software development teams by improving communication and collaboration throughout the development process.

*Registration is required for downloading.

Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition 90-Day Trial

Professional development tools for individual programmers or those working in small teams who are building smart client, Web, mobile, or Microsoft Office-based applications.

*Registration is required for downloading.

*Important Notices

  • Trial software is intended for evaluation purposes only.
  • For CD or DVD orders please allow three to five weeks for standard delivery.
  • There is no product support for the trials.
  • Ask questions, share information and learn about Visual Studio 2005 with others. There are many developers, architects and testers already working with Visual Studio 2005. Join the Visual Studio 2005 Forums.

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