No. There is no issue like that with Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition. It is completely free for as long as you want to use it. Earlier it was only for a one year period and the licence expired after an year. But now they have decided to give this edition for free. See this.
See how nice Big Bro Bill is?
As for syntax changes, I tried the Professional Version for some time, and the major irritation was that the use of functions like strncpy has been deprecated in favour of microsoft specific functions like strncpy_s. So you may get a lot of compiler warnings saying this and that is deprecated, blah blah blah. Of course you can turn if off with a specific preprocessor switch
Leave it to M$ to depricate standard functions in lieu of their own functions. Whether their reasoning is sound is immaterial. They should not ignore the standards because they don't like them.
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I personally do not like this compiler specific code...
I despise this "compiler specific code" because of the arrogance. They can add the functions -- no problem there -- but to deprecate the Standard takes it too far.
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but since I don't know the internals of the C/C++ standard implementations, I am not in a position to say where the old strncpy functions have gone wrong.
The problem with the string functions is they make it easy to overflow your string buffer. In some ways they are as dangerous as gets() and scanf("%s"...), but they are under control of the programmer, not the user. Any programmer worth his salt can handle this without difficulty.
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