Microsoft Visual Studio Express is a set of freeware integrated development environments (IDE) developed by Microsoft that are lightweight versions of the Microsoft Visual Studio product line.
Visual Studio Express 2010 consists of the following separate products:
I'm planning a side project with some colleagues but not everyone has licenses. We were thinking of releasing an app for both Windows 8/8.1 and Windows Phone 8 platforms. I don't have a lot of experience working with Express versions, but for some…
I'm using VB 2010 Express.
In C# I would set the forms CancelButton property.
For this VB form I don't have a CancelButton so I suspect I need to program either KeyPress or KeyDown.
What is the difference between these two events?
Which should…
Can I develop Silverlight applications in Visual Studio express?
When I start up Visual C# Express 2008 it doesn't give me any options to create Silverlight applications?
I'm confused about getting Qt working with Visual Studio Express. Most of the searches online have turned up instructions for compiling Qt using instructions such as:
Install MSVC2005 or MSVC2008
Install the most recent Platform SDK (@ MSDN:…
I'm making a new UserControl, and when I opened it the XAML was not working.
I thought that this was odd, as when I was working on my MainWindow it was working just fine. So I checked on my MainWindow. It still works there. Also in C# code.…
I'm trying to use the Visual Studio 2010 Express editions to set up an ASP.NET MVC 2 Web Application using SqlExpress + Entity Framework as the data access. I have both the "C# Edition" and "Web Developer Edition" installed.
If I try to add a data…
For past express editions, I've been able to find a "compare editions" page that shows what features are available in express, professional, ultimate, etc. Something like this.
However, every comparison table I've seen so far omits the express…
Can the IDE level version control support in Visual Studio Express 2012 be used with Git, or would that require plug-in support available only with the full version?
I am learning .NET MVC and an app I'm building has become rather spaghetti-like. In my code I have many actions in different controllers which naturally all produce various views and partialviews. To make matters worse, I have @Html.Action commands…
So Microsoft released Visual Studio 2012 Express for desktop apps. That's great, but how does one create an installer for open source apps that are built in Visual Studio Express? There are no installer templates available by default, and they…
I been using VS2008 Pro for a long time now but since of licensing issues(Pro is under academic license) and the current project I am doing could be considered as commerial I decided to give VS2008 Express a go.
Now I made my project and a shell of…
Whenever I create new classes using Visual Studio 2010 Express C# it creates them with no access modifier. 9 times out of 10 I want my new classes to be public. How can I have Visual Studio create empty class templates with the "public" modifier by…
I've been developing a C# project in Visual Studio Express 2013 and came across Code Contracts for .NET languages. Impressed by their brevity and the static analysis tool that came with them, I started using them in my code base. However, when I…
When I try to add a resource at the resource designer by clicking "Add an existing item",the item is placed in the folder "Resource".
The problem is that if I create a new directory in the Resource directory and place the resources there,I get a…
