With the goal of stressing out my new adopted baby, Brownie (yes I know it makes her sound like a dog but hey, what can I do, it’s brown and I wasn’t feeling very creative when I got her), I installed Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, because I figured that one day while sitting at a cafe, I would probably have the urge to code and will need to have some form of VS on this little one. (I’m already thinking about how I can possible expand this girl’s memory just a little bit). I was pleasantly surprised, when I started creating a new Silverlight project, to see that it actually now supported solutions! I remember before, that was probably the most evident limitation of the express editions from the non-free ones (:p). I also tried out opening a solution that was built through the Pro edition and it seemed to work fine too! I think this is great news for all the hobbyist developers out there who would just like to try their hand out or start learning how to build all sorts of cool .NET applications. What I’d really love to see though is allowing Express Editions build for WinMo hrmmm..
being in tech 