{"id":264,"date":"2005-10-30T20:54:51","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T02:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameskovacs.com\/2005\/10\/31\/VS+2005+And+SQL+Server+2005+Can+Be+Yours"},"modified":"2005-10-30T20:54:51","modified_gmt":"2005-10-31T02:54:51","slug":"vs-2005-and-sql-server-2005-can-be-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/2005\/10\/30\/vs-2005-and-sql-server-2005-can-be-yours\/","title":{"rendered":"VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 can be yours!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming to one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.ca\/launch2005\">Canadian Launch events<\/a>? If so, you&#8217;ll get a Special Edition copies of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 for free! <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/mark_relph\/archive\/2005\/10\/28\/486419.aspx\">According to Mark Relph<\/a>, these are not trial versions. These are fully functional non-evaluation versions of the products. I&#8217;m not sure which SKU they will be distributing, but even full versions of the Express SKU will be cool. (Can anyone confirm which SKU will be distributed?) If you haven&#8217;t signed up yet, there&#8217;s still space left in some of the cities. (Calgary and a few others have opened up waiting lists.)&nbsp;Hope to see you at the launch!<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: Mark Relph just posted <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/mark_relph\/archive\/2005\/11\/04\/489083.aspx\">these pics<\/a> of the Special Edition. Looks like Launch attendees will be receiving Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition and SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition. Cool!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming to one of the Canadian Launch events? If so, you&#8217;ll get a Special Edition copies of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 for free! According to Mark Relph, these are not trial versions. These are fully functional non-evaluation versions of the products. I&#8217;m not sure which SKU they will be distributing, but even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dotnetgeneral","category-sql-server"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}