Aimed at beginners learning to program on Windows.
Unlike the current unified Visual Studio Community model, the 2010 Express line was divided into several standalone integrated development environments (IDEs), each tailored to a specific language or platform: visual studio 2010 express
Provided developers with fine-tuned control for performance-heavy applications. Aimed at beginners learning to program on Windows
Despite being free, the 2010 Express editions introduced several modern features that improved the coding experience: these were the specs:
| Edition | Primary Use | |---------|--------------| | | VB.NET console, Windows Forms, and WPF apps | | Visual C# 2010 Express | C# desktop and class library development | | Visual C++ 2010 Express | Native Win32, CLR, and MFC projects (limited resource editing) | | Visual Web Developer 2010 Express | ASP.NET Web Forms, MVC 2/3, and Razor | | Windows Phone Developer Tools (add-on) | Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 development |
If you are trying to install it on an old machine, these were the specs: