I've got mail!

Thanks to Microsoft, the postman delivered lots of goodies for me :

Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 Web Developer Kit¹ Mobile Application Development Toolkit Visual Basic .NET Resource Kit Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional (60 day trial)

I didn’t ask for the last two, but they were nice enough to send them to me. In fact I now have four 60 day trials of VS.NET 2003 as they include one in each of the other packs (except of course VS 2005). Shame I’ve already got a licensed copy really…

Now why did I get all this? I signed up for MSDN Connection – a free service from Microsoft. As well as the free stuff, I also get discounts on various things including 50% off selected books. Not bad at all.

One interesting nugget which I’ve not yet looked into is in the Web Developer Kit : ASP.NET for PHP programmers. If it’s any good I’ll show to some of my PHP orientated associates.

Off I go to install Visual Studio 2005…

¹ Listed as ASP.NET Resource Kit, but contains far more stuff than the one I downloaded ages ago.