The team building the next release of Visual Studio has responded to developer criticism and is adding support for building Windows 8 Desktop apps to VS 2012 Express. Last month, there was quite a bit ...

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The company is bringing back free tooling for Windows desktop apps after developers expressed frustration over the Visual Studio 2012 Express lineup. Microsoft has added Visual Studio 2012 Express for ...

There appears to be confusion among some developers around extensions in Visual Studio Express, Microsoft's free version of its flagship development tool. The question was posed this way by a ...

Microsoft today launched the Community 2013 edition of Visual Studio, which essentially replaces the very limited Visual Studio Express version the company has been offering for a few years now. There ...

Microsoft will ship a version of its Visual Studio Express 2012 for building Windows desktop applications, reversing an earlier decision to limit the Express version of the toolkit to building ...

Microsoft Visual Studio（简称VS）是微软推出的一体化开发环境，支持创建ASP.NET网页应用、XML Web服务、桌面程序及移动应用。它集成了软件开发全过程所需的多种工具，涵盖需求设计、编码、测试到版本管理，提供UML建模、代码控制等功能，极大提升了开发效率，是 ...

Microsoft began offering this week Beta 2 releases of its free Visual Studio 2010 Express products, which are intended to enable students, hobbyists, and novices to build Windows and Web applications.

I've not been having luck here. I tried the workarounds I found on the internet, and haven't had success. I've got Windows 7 64-bit, and need to compile 64-bit apps. I *think* installing the Windows ...