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Visual Studio Express is Free

Can someone knowledgeable outline the differences with VC++ Express and Standard? The MS forum is short on a 'shortcomings' overview.
 
69dodge said:
No MFC, for one.
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Yeah, that's one of the few things I could dredge up.

kevin said:
The faq is kind of vague on differences between the express and standard versions.
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That's the problem, without digging.

See, a lot of what we do in my program is largely C oriented, so that I'm not too worried about the ritzy-ditzy features, so long as the compiler is fully functional. Also, I don't usually have to manage projects with millions of lines of code, so some of the editor's features, I'm sure, aren't as interesting to me, either.
 
I'm pretty sure I've seen instructions on getting MFC working with Visual Studio Express. I believe it involves downloading the Platform SDK from Microsoft and installing it, then setting up paths and stuff. I tried it once, though, and didn't get it to work, and I wasn't patient enough to work at getting MFC working so I gave up and went back to Visual Studio 2003. There are other GUI solutions like wxWidgets, Qt, etc. if MFC just won't work with VSE.

(Of course, you'll probably get programming snobs asking why the hell one would need MFC support in the first place, MFC is obsolete, etc, etc, forgetting about those of us who have to deal with legacy code...)
 
Visual Studio Express 2005 requires .Net 2.0. I have no idea if MFC provides anything .Net doesn't.
 
Standard contains all the languages together in one product. Express is a set of different products. You can install all the express products, but you'll end up with <n> different products rather than one product.
 
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