There is countless add-ins on http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/ but it seems they are all not for visual studio express (I use visual studio 2010 C# express in my laptop).
But extension manager does provide links to the site so I wonder how can I add-ins for VS express in the site?
Visual Studio Express does not support add-ins.
If you are student, you may be able to get full version (Professional) from either MSDN AA or from DreamSpark. Otherwise you are out of luck (unless you purchase it yourself).
EDIT: You may also try SharpDevelop. It is open-source alternative to Visual Studio. It does not support Visual Studio extensions, but it does support its own extensions. And it may have the features you are looking for.
EDIT Dec 2014: There is now a Visual Studio Community Edition which is free for noncommercial and some commerical uses and does support add-ins!
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I am planning to buy Visual Studio 2012 Professional, but I see two options:
Visual Studio 2012 Professional with MSDN and Visual Studio 2012 Professional.
What are the extra features of Visual Studio 2012 Professional with MSDN?
Among other things With MSDN you get Azure (cloud) credits, access to developer licenses for most Microsoft OSes (great for testing) and you have the ability to download all past Visual Studio products (2010, 2005 etc) as well as future ones. Future being - new releases of VS that come out during your subscription period. MSDN subscribers use to get updates on CDs/DVDS in quarterly shipments (via snail mail) although MS is dropping that. All downloads will be online.
The only thing I don't know is if Visual Studio 2012 with MSDN entitles you to use Visual Studio Online (effectively you do development in the cloud). I believe it does but don't quote me on that.
If you don't need access to OSes for testing, don't need to get newer versions of Visual Studio (or get past ones) then it might not be worth the money.
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
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.
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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!!!
hello I have Visual Studio 2008 Express edition, I found some add-ins like metalscroll and rockscroll and even installed, but I can't find how to use those add-ins, I thought it might be automatically, I mean highlighting, but it doesn't work for my version, any ideas why? thanks in advance
Quote from metalscroll's home page:
The add-in works with Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 (Express versions
not supported, since they don't allow add-ins). VS 2010 will not be
supported, but Microsoft has released an add-in pack called
Productivity Power Tools which provides the same functionality.
You can forget about installing add-ins in Express editions of Visual Studio. They simply are not supported. Money spending time :-)
I want a complete list of AddOns/AddIns available for VS 2005 IDE
Dupe:
Useful Add-Ins or Plug-Ins for native Visual Studio developer
Recommended add-ons/plugins for Microsoft Visual Studio
What Visual Studio add-ins do you use?
Visual Studio add-on gallery?
And many others...there's no definitive list.