I can't speak for other companies, but when I used express, I was in what was really a non developer role and used VS express to write some internal tools. That

I can't speak for other companies, but when I used express, I was in what was really a non developer role and used VS express to write some internal tools. That and other software I wrote allowed me to move into a developer role and we have since happily purchased pro licenses. I probably would have used an alternative to C#/WPF if express hadn't been available at the time. We have less than 5 devs but failed one of the criteria listed here: https://www.visualstudio.com/license-terms/mlt553321/ https://www.visualstudio.com/license-terms/mlt553321/