Express editions started with Visual Studio 2005. Microsoft Visual Studio Express is a set of integrated development environments (IDEs) developed by Microsoft as a freeware and registerware function-limited version of the non-free Microsoft Visual Studio. Screenshot of Visual Studio Express 2012 for Desktop running on Windows 7, developing a Windows app called Wikipedia Recon DroneĢ015 for (Web, Desktop, Windows and Team Foundation Server) (July 20, 2015 6 years ago ( ))