KB/books/VS2010-Unleashed/01fig14.jpg' alt='Visual Basic 2010 Express Offline Maps' title='Visual Basic 2010 Express Offline Maps' / Visual Basic 2010.

The Express editions are free, cut down versions of Microsoft's flagship programming environment, Visual Studio. Don't let the phrase 'cut down' put you off, though: while there are high-end features missing, these tools provide everything you need to create powerful Windows, web and database applications.

This ISO file contains the four main Express editions.

Visual Studio 2010 Express offers the simplest starting point for novice developers, with many useful template forms to help populate your projects ('Explorer', 'Login', 'Splash Screen', 'About Box' and more), IntelliSense filtering, and the ability to easily create Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) applications without XAML coding.

Visual C# has a little less hand holding - fewer forms, no Intellisense filtering - but is otherwise straightforward to use, and includes a new code editor, basic XML editor and multi-monitor support.

024 av stihl chainsaw carburetor. Visual C++ is targeted at the most expert audience. There are no canned Windows forms here, but it's the only one of the Express editions that's capable of creating native win32 applications, for instance.

And Visual Web Developer lets you create everything from individual web applications (which can be deployed with the new One Click Publish feature) to complete ASP.NET web sites with web application support. And a new Designer makes it easier than ever to build stunning Silverlight applications for your site.

What's new? A redesigned Start page leads you into the program more quickly, and a new 'Basic Settings' option then makes Visual Studio easier to use by hiding advanced, less frequently used features (see Tools > Settings).

The streamlining continues, as we've mentioned, with an attractive new editor that can now help you create WPF code (and multi-monitor support makes it easier to track large projects, no matter what you're doing).

The real value comes in the many language and .NET framework improvements, though. These include strong support for parallel programming to help you better exploit multi-core CPUs, ASP.NET improvements that make it easier to create powerful web forms, and many WPF-based interface additions, including ribbon controls, taskbar extensibility and support for Windows 7 multi-touch.

Please note that the download is an ISO disc image, and you'll need to burn it to a DVD before it can be used. Microsoft also recommend that you uninstall any previous beta of Visual Studio 2010 Express before you try to install this one.

Verdict

An essential upgrade to the most powerful programming environment around. If you've any interest in software development then you need this

Visual Studio 2010 Express is the most popular Integrated Development Environment from Microsoft for developing C, C++, C#, .NET, and other such languages. This free download is a standalone ISO image of Visual Studio Express for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit.

Visual Studio 2010 Express Overview

Microsoft has always improved the user experience either it is Operating System or any other utility for Windows. Visual Studio 2010 Express is one of the complete packages with all the development tools required for any kind of application. Whether you are developing a mobile application or any desktop application or Web app Visual Studio is the perfect tool. You can also write hardware drivers or any kind of other utility with perfection and ease. A friendly user interface is provided by Microsoft so while developing any application you never feel stuck with the options. Easily access the properties of the UI components and get the code with just a double click on the code. It automatically adds indentation to the code to ensure the understanding of the code.

A built-in debugger allows you to handle the errors and other mistakes. Hotkeys support provides more control over the environment. A live community is always there to help you out of any kind of problem. Easily drag and drop documents to the IDE and start working, it helps in integrating components made written in some other integrated development environment. One of the basic requirement for Visual Studio is .NET framework, but you don’t need to worry about it. .NET comes as a built-in component of Visual Studio. Easily navigate through different components through a tree-based files browser. Deploy your applications with just one click through Silverlight.

Features of Visual Studio 2010 Express

Some of the features of Visual Studio 2010 Express are:

• Easily understandable environment
• Supports all the common development languages except Java
• Drag and drop support for any component or documents
• Develop any kind of application
  • Desktop
  • Web
  • Mobile
• Silverlight for easy deployment
• Automatic code indentation features
• Files browser to navigate complete project
• Support for Hotkeys
• Many other advanced options and features

System Requirements for Visual Studio 2010 Express

Before you download Visual Studio 2010 Express, make sure that your system meets the given requirements

• Operating System: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10
• Free Hard Disk Space: 3 GB of minimum hard disk space required
• Installed Memory: Minimum 1 GB of RAM required
• Processor: Intel Pentium 4 with 1.6 GHz of processor required
• DirectX 9 supported video card
• .NET framework

Visual Studio 2010 Express Free Download

Click the below link to download the standalone ISO image of Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows x86 and x64 architecture. It is compatible with all the latest and older versions of Windows and it from one of the dominating development environments.