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Microsoft Visual Studio Express Edition

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Developer's Description

If you're a gamer who wants to learn more about game development or a developer who wants to sharpen your development skills, check out these free developer learning resources that teach you, step-by-step, how to develop your own arcade games on the PC. Microsoft Visual Studio Express offers powerful development tools for all skill levels and lets you design great-looking and easy-to-use applications using an intuitive drag-and-drop interface designer.

Express Edition products are designed for hobbyists, students, and novice developers. As such, they lack the full breadth of features found in higher-end Visual Studio. The user interfaces are significantly streamlined to ensure that extraneous features do not interfere with the learning process.

Full Specifications

What's new in version 1

General

Release December 5, 2008
Date Added May 18, 2006
Version 1

Operating Systems

Operating Systems Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows, Windows XP
Additional Requirements None

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Total Downloads 153,685
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