Microsoft Visual Studio Express
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Screenshot of Visual Studio Express 2012 for Desktop running on Windows 7, developing a Windows application called
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| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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| Stable release | 2015 for (Web, Desktop, Windows and Team Foundation Server) (July 20, 2015) |
| Operating system | Windows |
| Type | Integrated development environment |
| Website | www |
Microsoft Visual Studio Express is a set of integrated development environments (IDEs) developed by Microsoft as a freeware and registerware function-limited version of the non-free Microsoft Visual Studio. Express editions started with Visual Studio 2005.
Visual Studio Express was supplemented by the Visual Studio Community edition, which is also available for free. The community edition works with plugins, a feature that was previously exclusive to the paid editions (Professional and higher). Express editions of Visual Studio 2015 are, however, still available for the time being.
Visual Studio 2005 Express, the first version of Visual Studio Express, was released on October 2005, with support until 2015. It runs on Windows 2000 SP4 and later. Service Pack 1 for 2005 Express was released on December 2006. Registration was not required; free-of-charge registration for use after a 30-day trial period has been required since the release of Visual Studio Express 2008.
Visual Studio 2008 Express was released in November 2007, with its Service Pack 1 released on August 11, 2008. Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 Express require Windows XP SP3 or later. Although Windows 2000 is no longer supported, Visual Studio 2008 Express can develop applications to run on Windows 2000. Windows Phone support is available with Windows Vista and later.
Visual Studio 2010 Express was released in April 2010, alongside Visual Studio 2010.
Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010 Express are geared toward single project types. For example, developers must launch Visual Web Developer Express to build web applications, while class libraries must be developed separately in Visual C# Express. The commercial editions of Visual Studio, however, support multiple project types without separate launch.
Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010 Express consist of the following separate products:
Visual Basic Express has the following limitations:
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