Where can I find the Visual Studio Express executable?

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crazy novice picture crazy novice · Aug 11, 2014 · Viewed 32.9k times · Source

I had visual studio 2013 express edition installed on my windows 8.1 PC. I then installed VS 2013 professional. Now I want to run express edition to verify certain features available between express vs pro but I cannot find how can I launch express version. Whenever I search for it via Windows 8.1 search box, I just get pro version.

Can anyone point me to location where express version executable is installed so that I can launch it? VS is installed at C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0 and I assume that its somewhere here where I should have both express and professional versions installed.

Answer

Jeroen Vannevel picture Jeroen Vannevel · Aug 11, 2014

You can just search for 'express' in the Win8.1 search and it'll show up.

Otherwise go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE and open VSWinExpress.exe. Professional can be opened with devenv.exe.

For Visual Studio 2017 the path is slightly changed. You can find it under C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe. Change 'Professional' to 'Community' for the community edition.

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