Microsoft has made its Visual Studio 2010 Express versions available for download. The software giant made beta 2 of the Visual Studio 2010 Express editions available for download on Oct. 21.

Microsoft began offering this week Beta 2 releases of its free Visual Studio 2010 Express products, which are intended to enable students, hobbyists, and novices to build Windows and Web applications.

Aiming to reach a larger audience of software developers, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced slimmed-down “Express” editions of its Visual Studio developer tool for specific programming languages.

Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4.0 MSDN subscribers now have access to the Beta 2 releases of both Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. If you have MSDN access, go ahead and ...

The company is bringing back free tooling for Windows desktop apps after developers expressed frustration over the Visual Studio 2012 Express lineup. Microsoft has added Visual Studio 2012 Express for ...

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