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		mpalme on Aug 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft's C# and VB Compilers Now Freely Availab... The title is slightly misleading - In fact the compilers have been available before as part of the .NET Framework (or Windows SDK) and are most likely sitting on your windows machine (try c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\csc.exe).

drharris on Aug 1, 2013 [–]

Indeed, and have been free for a long, long time. The only thing they charge money for is the IDE.

tiernano on Aug 1, 2013 | [–]

and even then, there are free editions of that too (express)

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