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Visual Studio 2005 Retired documentation

PDF files that contain the Visual Studio 2005 documentation.

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  • Version:

    2005

    Date Published:

    9/21/2017

    File Name:

    VS2005_CPP_en-us.pdf

    VS2005_CSharp_en-us.pdf

    VS2005_DeviceDev_en-us.pdf

    VS2005_General_en-us.pdf

    VS2005_JScript_en-us.pdf

    VS2005_JSharp_en-us.pdf

    VS2005_SDK_en-us.pdf

    VS2005_VB_en-us.pdf

    VS2005_VSTO_en-us.pdf

    VS2005_VWD_en-us.pdf

    File Size:

    104.1 MB

    10.6 MB

    3.2 MB

    155.6 MB

    3.3 MB

    22.2 MB

    232.8 MB

    29.2 MB

    94.4 MB

    27.6 MB

    PDF files that contain the Visual Studio 2005 documentation, formerly hosted online in MSDN under the Visual Studio 2005 node. This includes documentation for Visual Basic, C#, and Visual C++ as well as the Visual Studio documentation.
  • Supported Operating Systems

    Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Windows Vista, Windows XP Service Pack 2

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