Download Visual Studio Express Editions

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 * Updated 3/31/2015

While this post was originally written in 2009, it still gets a ton of hits!

Today, we have lots of new offerings for developers looking for free tools including Visual Studio Community Edition and updated Visual Studio Express Editions. I've updated the page with relevant links below

Snip from the FAQ on that page:

Q: Who can use Visual Studio Community?             
A: Here’s how individual developers can use Visual Studio Community:

  • Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps.

Here’s how Visual Studio Community can be used in organizations:

  • An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.
  • For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise organizations, up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or > $1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.

 

 Visual Studio Express 2013 Editions are also available from https://msdn.com/express

 

Snip from the Express page

Commercial use of Visual Studio Express
Visual Studio Express products are available at no charge and may be used for commercial, production usage subject to the license terms provided with each product. For example, you can use Express for Windows to create apps that you can then submit for sale in the Windows Store.

 

 And here's how they talk about Community Edition

Visual Studio Community is a free and full-featured IDE for building apps for Web, Windows Store, Windows Desktop, and even Android and iOS using programming languages including C#, C++, HTML/JavaScript, and Visual Basic. With Community, you can take advantage of out-of-box advanced productivity features such as enhanced code editing, code analysis, debugging, and profiling, and extend that functionality with over 5,000 free and paid extensions in the Visual Studio gallery. Community is the perfect tool for individual developers, students, open source contributors, and small teams.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    October 26, 2009
    Can I still use Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with 2010 installed. What happens when the beta expires?

  • Anonymous
    October 26, 2009
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    November 30, 2009
    Just curious...  Are they planning on an Iron Python version?

  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2009
    whats the difference between VS 2010 Express and VS 2010 Beta2?

  • Anonymous
    December 30, 2009
    Yippee, I love the Express Products!  Glad to see that the products can work side by side.  This will allow me to get up to speed on the latest .NET Framework

  • Anonymous
    February 09, 2010
    how do i install the programe into my PC?

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2010
    It is a good platform for software developers

  • Anonymous
    April 01, 2010
    i am using it for web developement but that one is 2008 and tgis is even better one than  that one

  • Anonymous
    September 03, 2010
    The express programs are awesome...  on another computer I have downloaded Visual Studio 2010 Professional Studio...  I love all of these programs and I have been referring other people to Microsoft's webside as well.   Thank you!

  • Anonymous
    January 13, 2011
    The 'download an ISO image' link does not work

  • Anonymous
    April 05, 2011
    Your links for VB and C Sharp download dont work

  • Anonymous
    June 21, 2011
    Where can I download iso image for visual web developer 2010? Thanks

  • Anonymous
    June 22, 2011
    All of the Express Editions are in the same ISO package so download this  - www.microsoft.com/.../express-iso