How to open Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop (C++)?

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Ray picture Ray · Mar 18, 2014 · Viewed 16.8k times · Source

I downloaded and installed Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop, and now I want to start it. I expected I could just go to Metro and type, but nothing (relevant) comes up! I tried to find the installation folder but can't find it. There are a few versions of Visual Studio but none of them say "Express 2013". Despite how I sound, I'm not a complete idiot when it comes to computers, but I just can't seem to open Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop, well, the C++ IDE anyway. I have read the official "Getting Started" guides but they don't tell me how to actually open it! Why can't it be as easy as opening IntelliJ IDEA or PyCharm?

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Dima Maligin picture Dima Maligin · Mar 18, 2014

Ok for all who have trouble opening VS you can do it like so: In the search area of Start type run and in the run window type devenv. You can also press Win + R to open the run window.

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