Who knows that .NET is free?

posted by  jhorra (5)  10 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

I'm sure readers of this blog know...but it's surprising how many people don't: The .NET Framework, our "crown jewels" in terms of our developer platform, is completely free of charge for commerical use as long as you have a valid copy of Windows to run it on.

What does that mean? It means you can develop web applications, client applications  and mobile applications for nothing: you can just download the framework, the compilers, the common language runtime (CLR) and use it commercially.

But don't you need to buy Visual Studio? Well, the short answer is n