For developers who want to own - without the need to work more manufacturing team, produce a software dedicated to one particular platform, there is a family of Visual Studio Express. The families of these products are available in the following versions:
- Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone,
- Web Developer 2010 Express,
- Visual Basic 2010 Express,
- Visual C # 2010 Express,
- Visual C + + 2010 Express.
Each of these products allows you to create professional applications, dedicated to a single platform, or using a single programming techniques. In addition, these solutions are tailored to individual developers working alone, because, inter alia, do not allow for integration with Team Foundation Server and group work with this solution.
Families Visual Studio Express products can be used for commercial activities, and applications made for her using can be sold.
More about:
- Visual Studio products -
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products[
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- editions of Visual Studio -
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/product-comparison[
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- Visual Studio Express -
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/express#whatIsExpress[
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As good as i know compact version of MS SQL Server is a free, embedded database that software developers can use for building ASP.NET websites and Windows desktop applications.
More about it:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/editions/2012-editions/compact.aspx[
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