Microsoft Visual Studio Express
| Microsoft Visual Studio Express | |
|---|---|
Visual Studio Express 2012 for Desktop, developing a Windows app called Wikipedia Recon Drone | |
| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
| Final release | 2017
/ March 7, 2017 |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Type | Integrated development environment |
| License | Freeware, registerware |
| Website | visualstudio |
Microsoft Visual Studio Express was a set of integrated development environments (IDEs) that Microsoft developed and released free of charge. They are function-limited version of the non-free Visual Studio and require mandatory registration. Express editions started with Visual Studio 2005.
In 2013, Microsoft began supplanting Visual Studio Express with the more feature-rich Community edition of Visual Studio, which is available free of charge with a different license that disallow some scenarios in enterprise settings. The last version of the Express edition is the desktop-only 2017.