On Friday, 22 June 2012 at 18:56:48 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
I believe SDK with compiler is a free download though I might be off on this.
Also, there are Express editions of Visual Studio which are currently, and will be at least for the next release, free for download. Originally, Microsoft wanted to include only the SDK for »Metro-style« apps with VC++ 2012 Express, but after this caused massively negative reactions in the developer/internet/open-source/… community, a native code edition was announced as well.
David
