The difference between Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Web Developer 2010 Express?

Question

What is the difference between purchasing Visual Studio 2010 Express, and downloading Visual Web Developer 2010 Express?

Although I created a company website using Visual Web Developer 2010 Express (I love this product!), I'm not an experienced programmer. But I'm wondering if Visual Studio 2010 Express is just as good, or better, and if it will do the same things as VWD.

I just can't google any good links that compares the two.

Answer 1

On the "Visual Studio Express 2010" disk VS2010Express.iso which I downloaded from Microsoft it turned out that Visual Studio Express consist of:

Visual C#, Visual Basic, Visual C++, "Visual Web developer".

So to answer the original question here I think that Visual Web developer is one part of the whole disk called Visual Studio. But don't go there if you do not have to:

I am currently upgrading from Visual Studio 2008 because of the bug in .Net 2.0 / 3.5 related to not being able to work with (not recognizing) Internet Explorer 10, but now I get bugs related to App_GlobalResources. The whole Globalization function just does not work anymore. I am in a Hackathon nightmare of 48 hours trying to survive. I think that MS wanted to get you all on board with the free express edition but it is payback time now. I think I am going back to Uniface which is upward compatible. Once again, there is no such thing as free!!!

Answer 2

Microsoft has it:

MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO - microsoft.com

and Definition of

Microsoft Visual Studio Express - Wikipedia

Just click on learn more in each product to see their differences.

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