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Screenshot of Visual Studio Express 2012 for Desktop running on, developing a Windows app called Wikipedia Recon Drone 2015 for (Web, Desktop, Windows and Team Foundation Server) (July 20, 2015; 3 years ago ( 2015-07-20)), Website Microsoft Visual Studio Express is a set of (IDEs) developed by as a and function-limited version of the non-free. Express editions started with Visual Studio 2005. Visual Studio Express was supplanted by the Visual Studio Community edition, which is also available for free.

But with different. Compared to Visual Studio Express, the new license is more friendly to open-source but less for some closed source developers. 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.

Update: In October 2017 (or so) Microsoft quietly released 'Express 2017 for Windows Desktop'. There is a note, that this is the final (last) release of this suite.

Contents. History Visual Studio 2005 Express, the first version of Visual Studio Express, was released on October 2005, with support until 2015. It runs on SP4 and later. 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.

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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 or later. Although is no longer supported, Visual Studio 2008 Express can develop applications to run on. Windows Phone support is available with and later. Visual Studio 2010 Express was released in April 2010, alongside Visual Studio 2010. 2005–2010 products Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010 Express are geared toward single project types. For example, developers must launch Visual Web Developer Express to build, 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:. Express. Express. Express.

Visual Express (2005 only). Visual Web Developer Express.

Visual Studio Express for (2010 only) Visual Basic Express Visual Basic Express has the following limitations:. No IDE support for databases other than and. No support for web applications with (although, it is supported by Visual Web Developer Express). No support for developing for mobile devices (no templates or emulator). Absence of. Fewer project templates (e.g.

(only ). (only ). Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Phone Consists of the Windows Phone 8 that enables developing applications for and and testing them on an. Supports C, and. As part of its.NET Framework support, it can integrate with. ( only) N/A In October 2013, Microsoft released four new versions of its Visual Studio Express products. Like the 2012 Express edition, they are geared toward an overall solution type which may mix different types of projects.

However, different IDEs are still offered for different destination platforms. They are:. Visual Studio Express 2013 for Web. Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows: Note: Works on Windows 8.1 only ( and ). Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop. Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Express 2013 Note that Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone was not released in the set of 2013 products, but Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone is now merged with Visual Studio Express for Windows 2013.2.

With this new release, Windows 8.1 is now supported for development, but not for.0 development or the Windows Phone Emulator, the latter of which also requires a processor that supports Client and (SLAT). 2015 products. This section needs expansion. You can help. (August 2016) The Visual Studio Express 2015 editions are:.

Express for Desktop – for creating desktop Windows programs. Express for Web - for creating responsive websites, web APIs, or 'real-time online experiences'. Express for Windows – core tools for creating apps. Team Foundation Server 2015 Express – platform for source code control, for project management, and for team collaboration On their Overview of Visual Studio 2015 Products page, Microsoft says: Small teams and individual developers should consider Visual Studio Community 2015 which is more comprehensive than Express. OBSERVATION: Currently, all links on Microsoft for Visual Studio Express 2015 redirects to its Community edition instead. 2017 product In October 2017 (or so) Microsoft quietly released 'Express 2017 for Windows Desktop'. No other editions (Web,UWP) will be released, and this is the only one and probably the last (final) release of any express suite.

This edition is available together with Express 2015 for desktop on but only on the English 'translation' of page. Extensibility Visual Studio is extensible by nature, ultimately consisting of a core 'shell' that implements all commands, windows, editors, project types, languages, and other features through dynamically loadable modules called 'packages'.

Microsoft encourages and fosters third-party partners to create modules for Visual Studio via the free program. However, according to Dan Fernandez, Microsoft 'made a business decision to not allow 3rd party extensibility in Express'. See also. References. Retrieved 2009-09-02. Retrieved 2015-01-17. Archived from on 2018-03-30.

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