Microsoft Academic Alliance - Fall 2003
Under the terms of the MS Academic Alliance, all students enrolled in
Computer Science courses at Virginia Tech are entitled to obtain certain MS
products free of charge. To do so:
- You must obtain a CS Lab account. To to the CS Lab site www.cslab.vt.edu
and take the Account Maintenance link to the account request form.
Fill it out and submit it. Be sure you keep track of your lab
password!
- Wait. You will eventually receive an e-mail message with your login
ID and password for the software download site at msdn02.e-academy.com/vt_cs/.
Note that this is not an automated process, and it may take a day or two for
the e-mail to be sent.
- Log onto the software download site with the login ID and password that
was e-mailed to you.
- The site includes a number of products, including Visual C++ .NET (both
2002 and 2003 versions), the MSDN documentation, some operating systems, and
other tools.
- For this course, you should download and install Visual C++ .NET 2003 and
the MSDN documentation. These are large downloads. The .NET
download is approximately 1.5 GB in size; the MSDN documentation amounts to
approximately 1.8 GB. (So, there's no hope over a modem
connection.) All of the machines in the McBryde 118 lab include CD
burners, so you can do the downloads there, write them to CDs, and take them
home.
Last modified: Wednesday, August 27, 2003