I have Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows 8 apps installed, now i want to upgrade it to also support c# desktop apps.
Can you please help me out in upgrading it so that in the end I want to have only one Visual studio that supports both Windows 8 Store apps + C# desktop apps.
You'd need to buy Visual Studio Professional 2013 if you want a single program to do both.
Microsoft have 3 Express versions:
Express 2013 for Web - (does ASP.NET & ASP.NET MVC web sites)
Express 2013 for Windows - (does Windows 8 and windows Phone apps)
Express 2013 for Windows Desktop - does C# desktop apps (Winforms, WPF)
To do both Windows 8 Store apps and C# desktop apps you need 2 versions of express installed.
The Professional (and higher) versions however can do all these types of project in one application.
See Microsoft for details:
Visual Studio Express versions
Visual Studio Professional NB - it can be bought with or without a MSDN subscription.
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I was reinstalling an old version of MSVC++ to try some things, and I saw two different versions:
What's the difference between:
Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop with Update 5
and
Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows with Update 5
I thought for Windows == for Windows Desktop + something else (for Windows Phone?)
i.e. for Windows would be the bigger one. But it's not:
... for Windows DVD 2.9 GB
... for Windows Desktop DVD 3.3 GB
What is the difference between Visual Studio Express "for Windows" and "for Windows Desktop"?
Note: Here is the download link for Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop with Update 5.
Windows Desktop = old classic Win32 C++, C# WinForms and WPF programs, while Windows is only the newer store apps for (phone) 8.x.
Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop enables the creation of
desktop apps in C#, Visual Basic, and C++, and supports Windows
Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Forms, and Win32.
VISUAL STUDIO 2013 EXPRESS FOR WINDOWS (STORE) The tools include a full-featured code editor, a powerful debugger, a focused profiler,
and rich language support that you can use to build apps that you
write in HTML5/JavaScript, C++, C#, or Visual Basic. Visual Studio
Express 2013 for Windows also includes tools for Windows Phone 8.0
development and Windows Phone emulators that you can use to test how
your Windows Phone apps will run on different devices.
So, install the Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop.
Can't find tool set for Win XP for my Visual Studio 2010. Is it still available to download? Where I can get it?
Yes it still available for download here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23507
The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2010 features and a variety of framework technologies including:
C# 4
Visual Basic 10
F#
Parallel Extensions
Windows Communication Foundation
Windows Workflow
Windows Presentation Foundation
Silverlight 4
ASP.NET 4
Windows 7
Entity Framework
ADO.NET Data Services
Managed Extensibility Framework
Application Lifecycle Management
Windows Azure
But it requirements are:
Windows 7
Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Vista
Visual Studio 2010 SP1 .NET Framework 4 Silverlight 4
So you may wish to use an older version. Search with this link:
https://www.google.com/search?q=visual+studio+2006+download
What is the minimum version of Visual Studio required for developing Windows Phone 8.1 application, can Visual Studio 2012 (Update 4) be used to develop the application.
According to Microsoft, Windows Phone 8.1 development requires Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 or newer, you can't use Visual Studio 2012. Note that although that page recommends installing the Express edition of Visual Studio if you don't have a paid one, it is better to install the Community edition (and of course, now you should go for VS 2015 instead of VS 2013).
I want to dive in into developing windows store apps. I am using visual studio express 2013 for desktop and my OS is windows 8.1. But when I want to follow a simple hello world project and I want to create a new project I am already limited in some way. I have to go to Installed > (I want to use C#) Visual C# > Universal or Windows Apps or Windows Phone Apps. But none of these 3 points are available when I want to follow the tutorial. Do you have any suggestions why this might be the case ?
To develop Windows Phone 8.1 apps, you need Visual Studio 2013 Express for Windows. You're using the version for Desktop which is why you don't see the necessary templates.
You can use the tools in Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows to
create innovative and compelling Windows Phone and Windows Store apps
on Windows 8.1.
You can find and download the Visual Studio 2013 Express for Windows here.
I have interest on creating mobile apps. So is it possible to create a app using visual studio 2010 ultimate. What is the difference between Visual Studio 2010 Express and visual studio 2010 ultimate.
Depends on what platform you want to make mobile aps - Windows Phone/Android/iOS
For Windows Phone - you can download the Mobile development SDK for VS2010 which will allow you to create mobile apps.
As for the difference between versions - content. With Ultimate you have more project templates, tools,supports more programing languages and is paid, while Express is a free version with less content for the more average user.