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This seems like a huge over reaction, and bordering on misinformation. First of all, for the longest time there were no free versions of Visual Studio for prod
by jlarocco 14y ago
This seems like a huge over reaction, and bordering on misinformation.
First of all, for the longest time there were no free versions of Visual Studio for producing any kind of application.
Second, even the recent "Express" versions have always been severely crippled. Where were the "No-cost 64-bit development is Dead on Windows 7" when the previous Express versions were released?
The Express versions are more like promotional tools than real versions of VS. For any serious development you'll probably need to buy a VS license anyway.
- smiler 14y agoExactly, Express didn't allow you to manage class library projects, which rules out almost all serious development anyway.
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoThis is not true, but I don't have the ability to downvote. You can define new class library projects in Express 2010, you can add it to other projects, you can do whatever.
- ramchip 14y agoI've built class libraries just fine with Express. Personally, what is a problem for me is that it can't handle multi-language projects.
- smiler 14y agoApologies - I thought this was a restriction on early versions, maybe they changed it with later ones
- marshray 14y agoYes, Express has always seemed like something of an amateur development tool useful mainly to students who will graduate before writing 3000 lines of code. But the command line compilers in the SDK and DDK are a different story.
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoPeter didn't say anything inaccurate as far as I can tell (I read the original MSDN post). He also laid out the history of VS Express very well. You can do serious development with Express, its actually a quite nice and small IDE, great for laptops with capacity issues. If you are doing C# programming on .NET, then really what else do you really need?