What is the difference between Visual Studio and Visual Studio Express?

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Mike Wills picture Mike Wills · Mar 3, 2011 · Viewed 39.8k times · Source

I know there are basic differences like no plugins and such. But if I use Visual Studio Pro at work and want to do some ASP.NET MVC apps at home, would I find Visual Studio Express a hindrance?

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JaredPar picture JaredPar · Mar 3, 2011

Visual Studio Expression is a free but less featureful version of Visual Studio Pro. As you've noticed it doesn't support plugins and a number of other features. It does support the editing of MVC web applications so it should be just fine for your purposes.

Here is a very useful FAQ page for Visual Studio Express

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