Developers building classic offline software, system utilities, and desktop business applications. 2. Visual Studio Express 2013 for Web

It remains a lightweight environment for maintaining older .NET 4.5 WinForms applications or legacy C++11 codebases on older hardware.

Late in the 2013 lifecycle, Microsoft released . This was a historic shift. The Community edition was entirely free, unified all the segmented Express versions into a single IDE, and finally allowed full extension support.