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 Visual Studio Express 2012 for Desktop, developing a Windows app called Wikipedia Recon Drone | |
| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
|---|---|
| Final release | |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Type | Integrated development environment |
| License | Freeware, registerware[3] |
| Website | visualstudio |
 | This article needs to be updated. (September 2022) |
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.[3] 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[4] with a different license that disallow some scenarios in enterprise settings. The last version of the Express edition is the desktop-only 2017.
- ^ "Visual Studio Express". VisualStudio.com. Microsoft. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
- ^ "Visual Studio build numbers and release dates". Visual Studio documentation. Microsoft. Retrieved 2 December 2021 – via Microsoft Docs.
- ^ a b "Registration FAQ". microsoft.com. Microsoft. Archived from the original on 5 December 2007.
- ^ "Visual Studio Community 2013 Announcement". VisualStudio.com. Microsoft. 12 November 2014. Archived from the original on 13 November 2014.