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Originally posted by Raven_Writer
Use .NET, doesn't FIRST get it for a fraction of the sales price? [I highly doubt Microsoft gives it away for free, but they might].
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Actually the last couple of years Microsoft HAS given FIRST teams a free copy of Visual Studio.
And it's not all that expensive for schools anyway. With the MSDN AA for High Schools program a high school can get Visual Studio for $399 and install it on all the lab computers, all the faculty computers and all the students who are taking programming courses can install it on their home computers at no additional cost.
http://www.msdnaa.net/hsmember/ for more information.
PS: Yes I do work for Microsoft but I thought this was a good deal when I was a high school computer teacher too.