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Microsoft Visual Studio Express is a set of integrated development environments (IDEs) developed by Microsoft as a freeware and registerware^[3] function-limited version of the non-free Microsoft Visual Studio. Express editions started with Visual Studio 2005.

Visual Studio Express was supplanted by the Visual Studio Community edition, which is also available for free.^[4] but with different license. 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.^[5] A final version was released in 2017.^[6]

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• 22005–2010 products
  • 2.4Visual C# Express

History[edit]

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.^[7]

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.

2005–2010 products[edit]

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
• Visual C++ Express
• Visual C# Express
• Visual J# Express (2005 only)
• Visual Web Developer Express
• Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone (2010 only)

Visual Basic Express[edit]

Visual Basic Express has the following limitations:^[8][9]

• No IDE support for databases other than SQL Server Express and Microsoft Access
• No support for web applications with ASP.NET (although, it is supported by Visual Web Developer Express)
• No support for developing for mobile devices (no templates or emulator)
• Absence of Crystal Reports
• Fewer project templates (e.g. Windows services template and Excel Workbook template are unavailable)
• Limited options for debugging and breakpoints
• No support for creating Windows Services (needs a separate project template)
• No support for OpenMP
• Limited deployment options for finished programs
• No code folding

Visual Basic 2008 Express includes the following improvements over 2005:

• Includes the visual Windows Presentation Foundation designer codenamed 'Cider'
• Debugs at runtime
• Better IntelliSense support
  • Fixes common spelling errors
  • Corrects most forms of invalid syntax
  • Provides suggestions to class names when specified classes are not found

Visual Basic 2005 and Visual Basic 2008 Express feature a Visual Basic 6.0 converter that makes it possible to upgrade Visual Basic 6.0 projects to Visual Basic.NET. The converter is not included with 2010 Express.

Visual Web Developer Express[edit]

Visual Web Developer Express is a freeware web development tool^[10] that allows developers to evaluate the web development and editing capabilities of the other Visual Studio editions at no charge. Its main function is to create ASP.NET websites. It has a WYSIWYG interface, drag-and-drop user interface designer, enhanced HTML and code editors, a limited database explorer, support for CSS, JavaScript and XML, and integrated, design-time validation for standards including XHTML 1.0/1.1 and CSS 2.1.

Visual Web Developer 2005 Express lacks certain features, such as the Accessibility Checker, the ability to create standalone class library projects, third-party add-ins and macros.^[11] Visual Web Developer 2008 Express SP1 supports both class library and web application projects.^[12] It also includes a new integrated HTML designer based on Microsoft Expression Web. However, this edition cannot publish self-developed websites.^{[clarification needed]}

Visual C++ Express[edit]

Visual C++ Express compiles .NET and Win32 applications in 32-bit only.^[13][14] It includes Windows SDK's compilers and core files, which developers can use to build Win32 applications.

Limitations of Visual C++ Express:

• No support for MFC or ATL. These libraries can, however, be installed from an older version of the Windows SDK and Windows Driver Kit.^[15]
• Lack of a resource editor, which is available in commercial editions of Visual Studio.^[16]
• No profiling support
• No support for add-ins or IDE macros
• No option for crash dump generation
• No 'list of all breakpoints' window.
• No support for cross-language debugging, for example a C# application calling a C++ DLL.

Limitations in earlier versions:

• No out-of-box support for developing 64-bit applications (prior to 2012).
• No support for OpenMP (prior to 2012)
• The debugger cannot be attached to a running process (prior to 2010)

While Microsoft lists memory windows as unavailable in Visual Studio 2010 Express,^[17] third parties have reported that they are available when Expert Settings are enabled.^[18][19]

Many open source projects have started providing project files created with Visual C++ Express; noteworthy examples include the Ogre and Irrlicht engines. Modding kits for commercial engines, such as Valve's Source engine, also support this development system.^[20]

Visual C# Express[edit]

Visual C# Express is a free, lightweight, integrated development environment (IDE) designed for novice developers, students and hobbyists to create applications and (when combined with the XNA Game Studio) video games for Windows, Xbox 360 and Zune. It can build console, Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation applications, and class libraries.

Microsoft has found that a substantial community of game players are taking up C# programming.^[21][22][23]

Limitations[edit]

Visual C# Express does not have a breakpoint control panel; breakpoints can only be toggled.

The following refactoring modes were also unavailable:^[24]

• Encapsulate field
• Promote local to parameter
• Reorder parameters
• Remove parameters
• Extract interface

The limitations effectively reduce the refactoring capabilities of Visual C# Express to renaming and extracting methods. According to Microsoft, the reason the listed features are absent is 'to simplify the C# Express user experience'. Some users remarked that the omission of refactoring capabilities removed useful functionality without actually simplifying use.^[25]

The ability to attach the debugger to an already-running process is also unavailable, hindering scenarios such as writing Windows services and re-attaching a debugger under ASP.NET when errors under the original debugging session cause breakpoints to be ignored.

2012-2013 products[edit]

For the 2012 release of Visual Express, Microsoft changed its distribution of editions so that each version is geared toward an overall solution type, and can contain more than one project type. (This is unlike previous Express editions, each of which was geared around a single programming language.) For example, a web solution might consist of a web application project and a couple of C# class-library projects. This change was made to reflect the wide diversity of applications available for the web and the new WinRT platform used on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.

Microsoft has released five Visual Studio Express 2012 products:

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:^[34][35]

• Visual Studio Express 2013 for Web^[36]
• Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows:^[36]Note: Works on Windows 8.1 only (x86 and x64).
• Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop^[36]
• Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Express 2013^[36]

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.^[37] With this new release, Windows 8.1 x86 is now supported for Windows Phone 8.1 development, but not for Windows Phone 8.0 development or the Windows Phone Emulator, the latter of which also requires a processor that supports Client Hyper-V and Second Level Address Translation (SLAT).

2015-2017 products[edit]

The Visual Studio Express 2015 editions are:

• Express for Desktop – for creating desktop Windows programs^[38]
• Express for Web - for creating responsive websites, web APIs, or 'real-time online experiences'^[38]
• Express for Windows – core tools for creating Universal Windows Platform apps. Requires Windows 10.^[38]
• Team Foundation Server 2015 Express – platform for source code control, for project management, and for team collaboration^[38]

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.^[39]

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The Visual Studio Express 2017 editions are:

• Express for Desktop - Supports building managed and native desktop applications.*

• Visual Studio Express 2017 is available for Windows Desktop developers. This will be the final version of Visual Studio Express, and there will not be a UWP or Web offering of Visual Studio Express 2017. We encourage all users to look at the free development options offered by Microsoft such as Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio Community for future development needs.^[40]

Extensibility[edit]

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'.^[41][42] Microsoft encourages and fosters third-party partners to create modules for Visual Studio via the free VSIP program. However, according to Dan Fernandez, Microsoft 'made a business decision to not allow 3rd party extensibility in Express'.^[43]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^https://www.visualstudio.com/vs-2015-product-editions
2. ^https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-express-vs
3. ^'Registration Issues'. Microsoft. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
4. ^'Visual Studio Community 2013 Announcement'. microsoft.com. 2014-11-12. Retrieved 2015-01-17.
5. ^http://blogs.msdn.com/b/onecode/archive/2014/11/12/differences-between-visual-studio-community-edition-and-express-editions.aspx
6. ^'Visual Studio Express'. Microsoft. Archived from the original on 2018-03-30. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
7. ^'Home Page'. Visual Studio Support. Archived from the original on March 8, 2011.
8. ^'Visual Basic 2005 Editions'. Microsoft Corporation. Retrieved 2007-07-19.
9. ^'Visual Basic 2008 Editions'. Microsoft Corporation. Retrieved 2009-04-30.
10. ^'Visual Studio 2005 Express Developer Center - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - questions 23 to 35, especially question 28'. Archived from the original on April 6, 2008. Retrieved 2011-12-06.
11. ^'Which features are missing from Visual Web Developer Express: Mikhail Arkhipov's blog'. Blogs.msdn.com. Retrieved 2009-06-28.
12. ^Scott Guthrie. 'Scott Guthrie's post on VS2008/.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta (bottom of page)'. Aspalliance.com. Retrieved 2009-06-28.
13. ^Visual C++ Editions (Visual Studio 2010)
14. ^Visual C++ Editions (Visual Studio 2008)
15. ^'Windows Driver Kit (WDK) Version 7.1.0 Release Notes'. Microsoft. 2010-02-26. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
16. ^'Visual C++ Editions'. Microsoft Corporation. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
17. ^'Memory Windows'. Microsoft Corporation. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
18. ^'Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Debugger'. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
19. ^'Visual Studio Hints'. Williams, Kenneth A. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
20. ^'Source SDK wiki: Compiler Choices'. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
21. ^'Visual C# at C# Online.NET (CSharp-Online.NET)'. Csharp-online.net wiki. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
22. ^'C# C Sharp and Tutorials on C# Friends.com'. www.csharpfriends.com/. Archived from the original on 2010-02-06. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
23. ^'XNA Developer Center'. Microsoft. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
24. ^'Technologies site about MSDN'. MSDNER. Retrieved 2007-10-21.
25. ^'Aaron Stebner's WebLog'. Microsoft Corporation. Retrieved 2004-10-20.
26. ^'Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web'. Visual Studio portal. Microsoft. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
27. ^'Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web'. MSDN. Microsoft. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
28. ^'Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8'. Visual Studio portal. Microsoft. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
29. ^'Develop Windows Store apps using Visual Studio 2012 (Windows)'. MSDN. Microsoft. 2 November 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
30. ^'Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop'. Visual Studio portal. Microsoft. Retrieved 30 November 2012s.
31. ^'Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop is Here'. The Visual Studio Blog. Microsoft. 12 September 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
32. ^'Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Express 2012'. Visual Studio portal. Microsoft. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
33. ^'Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Phone'. Visual Studio portal. Microsoft. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
34. ^'Visual Studio 2013'. Retrieved 2014-01-15.
35. ^'What's New in Visual Studio 2013'. Retrieved 2014-01-15.
36. ^ ^abcd'Download Overview'. Visual Studio. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
37. ^https://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/downloadsdk
38. ^ ^abcd'Visual Studio Express'. Archived from the original on 27 August 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
39. ^'Overview of Visual Studio 2015 Products'. Microsoft. Archived from the original on 1 August 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
40. ^'Visual Studio Express'. Microsoft. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
41. ^'Introducing the Visual Studio SDK'. Msdn.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2009-06-28.
42. ^'Visual Studio 2008 Shell - Details'. Msdn.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2009-06-28.
43. ^'Dan Fernandez's Blog : Visual Studio Express and TestDriven.NET'. Blogs.msdn.com. 2007-05-31. Retrieved 2009-06-28.

Further reading[edit]

• Marsman, Jennifer (7 September 2012). 'Best Practices for migrating Windows 7 desktop apps to Windows Store apps'. MSDN Blogs. Microsoft. Retrieved 30 November 2012.

External links[edit]

• Visual Studio Express downloads - nonofficial page with links to downloads from official servers, much less complicated than the official page
• Visual Studio Community - official website

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