Visual Studio Express is a piece of software manufactured by Microsoft. It may be purchased from their online store featured on the Microsoft website.
Microsoft Visual Studio Express was created in 2005.
Visual Studio Express can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/express/ The other editions of Visual Studio are not free and must be purchased.
No. Visual C++ Express is free, but Visual Studio C++ must be bought. The Express edition is a subset of the Studio release.
Microsoft Visual Web Developer focuses on the tools required to develop Web applications and is fully incorporated into Microsoft Visual Studio itself. Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express edition is a separate product that makes use of the same integrated development environment as Microsoft Visual Studio itself, but has a more limited set of language features.
The express edition's C++ implementation is no different to the visual studio implementation. It is the exact same language.
The latest version is Microsoft Visual Studio 2012(.NET 4.5)Although, this is still in beta testing.It is available for free from Microsoft.Update: Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 is no longer is beta. Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Express is available for free (www.microsoft.com/express).
Both will be available on the computer (sadly.) As an example, people who do personal programming targetting the XNA framework (the Microsoft gaming package for the XBox 360) install the XNA Express package, which is built on top of Visual Studio C# Express. Those of us with the professional versions have to deal with having both on our machine, since it won't work with the Team Edition of Visual Studio that I have.
Visual studio is a collection of different language compiler, whereas visual basic is just a single language. Visual studio express edition can be downloaded from www.microsoft.com/express A visual basic programmer uses visual studio to write and compile visual basic programs.
Microsoft offers Visual Studio Express Editions for free. Checkout the link provided below.
The latest version of Visual Studio is Visual Studio 2008 (v9.0).
The .NET Framework runtime is available free of charge from Microsoft's web site. If you are referring to Visual Studio, which is the programming environment for creating .NET Applications, then there is a edition called Visual Studio Express that is also available free of charge from microsoft.com/express. The other editions used for professional development can be found at many retailers, including Amazon.com, buy.com, etc...
Visual Studio Express.