I'm having some serious trouble downloading Microsoft Expression Blend. I want to learn to work with Microsoft Silverlight, so I downloaded Visual Studio Express 2013 for Web Update 1.
I have created a silverlight project and edited it successfully, and now I'm at the point in my learning in which Expression Blend comes in handy (animations and styling).
On the Microsoft Expression download page, it is clearly stated that "Blend continues to ship as a standalone tool with Visual Studio 2013". However, I cannot find Blend anywhere on my Windows 7 laptop, nor do I see any way to open Blend from within Visual Studio.
I do know that all the things that can be done in Expression Blend can be done in Visual Studio programmatically, but I would prefer to do them visually in Blend.
To use Expression Blend, do I need a different version of Visual Studio (Web vs Desktop etc.)? Do I need to update Visual Studio? Is it required that I buy the professional edition?
From your link it states:
You can download Blend for Visual Studio 2013 with Visual Studio Express for Windows, Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone, and Visual Studio Professional 2013 and higher.
No mention of Visual Studio for Web. So you need to Download one of the above mentioned express versions or spring for the professional edition.
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We just switched over to VS 2013 and I heard that you're supposed to be able to
generate code maps for your entire application. Awesome feature indeed, that could
get new developers on our project up to speed.
Watched a couple of tutorials, but when I tried to just right click on a method
in the application, the 'Show on Code Map' context menu is missing. In fact, I
can't find anything in VS that has anything to do with Code Maps.
My version:
Visual Studio Premium 2013
I tried installing Modeling SDK for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013, but that didn't do anything.
Anyone got any ideas?
You need Visual Studio ULTIMATE to create Code Maps.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj739835.aspx
This has changed for Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017:
The Enterprise Edition allows creating code maps.
The Community and Professional Editions can open diagrams generated in other Visual Studio editions in read-only mode.
when i'm installing "visual studio 2010 xpress editon" , its asks to install all products one by one like c++, C#, web developer. but ater intsallatoion when they comes with different application. one for C# and another for web dev. I want all them in one. how to do that?
I am afraid you can't have that.You can work on one environment at a time.
wikipedia:
Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010 Express consist of the following separate products
Visual Basic Express
Visual C++ Express
Visual C# Express
Visual J# Express (2005 only)
Visual Web Developer Express
Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone (2010 only)
programmers' post:
The biggest difference is that Express editions do not support plugins (No ReSharper, no add-ons). Additionally, the non-express versions are all combined, meaning you don't have to switch back and forth to get features from individual express versions if you have a project that crosses web, desktop, etc.
I am going to learn F#. In my lecturer notes, they have simply asked to open VS 2010, open project, select other languages and select F# ! I have VS 2010 express, and everything is separated into different software like Visual C++, Visual C# etc, there is no F# !
In this thread (Is F# 3.0 available on Visual Studio 2010 professional?) I found it is in VS 2012 express so I downloaded it. But, again I can't find F#!
How to make a F# project in VS express? Please help!
EDIT
At least, is this is available in Visual Studio 2010 Professional? Please help!
Download Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web (it is important, you cannot use F# with Visual Studio Express 2012 for Desktop or other), then install F# Tools for Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web. Full description how to do this is on msdn blog
Does the ultimate version of the Visual Studio 2010 or 2012 contains windows phone SDK and with Expression Blend 4?
I cannot find info about that even on Microsoft site.
Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend 4 are companion applications, sharing the same SLN and .csproj, vbproj files. Visual Studio 2012 also has a companion version of Blend (Blend for MS Visual Studio 2012).
None of the above IDEs are ready for Phone development. You need to install the SDK before they can create phone projects. During the install process, the SDK adds the appropriate templates to your computer.
If you have Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate it has a placeholder for phone projects. See the screenshot below.
The new version of Blend(Blend for MS Visual Studio 2012) doesn't support phone projects at all.
There is an Beta version of Blend available, with more project types, and the release version is coming soon. See this post for more details.
The ultimate version of Visual Studio 2012 contains Blend for Visual Studio 2012 (effectively "Blend 5"). Not sure why you'd need Blend 4 at that point.
What is the difference between purchasing Visual Studio 2010 Express, and downloading Visual Web Developer 2010 Express?
Although I created a company website using Visual Web Developer 2010 Express (I love this product!), I'm not an experienced programmer. But I'm wondering if Visual Studio 2010 Express is just as good, or better, and if it will do the same things as VWD.
I just can't google any good links that compares the two.
Microsoft has it:
MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO - microsoft.com
and Definition of
Microsoft Visual Studio Express - Wikipedia
Just click on learn more in each product to see their differences.
Regards
On the "Visual Studio Express 2010" disk VS2010Express.iso which I downloaded from Microsoft it turned out that Visual Studio Express consist of:
Visual C#,
Visual Basic,
Visual C++,
"Visual Web developer".
So to answer the original question here I think that Visual Web developer is one part of the whole disk called Visual Studio. But don't go there if you do not have to:
I am currently upgrading from Visual Studio 2008 because of the bug in .Net 2.0 / 3.5 related to not being able to work with (not recognizing) Internet Explorer 10, but now I get bugs related to App_GlobalResources. The whole Globalization function just does not work anymore. I am in a Hackathon nightmare of 48 hours trying to survive. I think that MS wanted to get you all on board with the free express edition but it is payback time now. I think I am going back to Uniface which is upward compatible. Once again, there is no such thing as free!!!