Microsoft Visual Studio Express

Microsoft Visual Studio Express
Developer(s)Microsoft
Final release
2017[1] / March 7, 2017; 7 years ago (2017-03-07)[2]
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows
TypeIntegrated development environment
LicenseFreeware, registerware[3]
Websitevisualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/express/

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.

  1. ^ "Visual Studio Express". VisualStudio.com. Microsoft. Retrieved December 2, 2021.
  2. ^ "Visual Studio build numbers and release dates". Visual Studio documentation. Microsoft. Retrieved December 2, 2021 – via Microsoft Docs.
  3. ^ a b "Registration FAQ". microsoft.com. Microsoft. Archived from the original on December 5, 2007.
  4. ^ "Visual Studio Community 2013 Announcement". VisualStudio.com. Microsoft. November 12, 2014. Archived from the original on November 13, 2014.