Unleash Your Creativity
Get everything you need to start building standards-friendly web applications with the free version of Visual Studio using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. Visual Web Developer 2010 Express is a full-featured web development editor for working with web standards, JavaScript and ASP.NET. This simple, streamlined installer will get your development machine ready to go. In addition, you will get the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform including frameworks, web server and database. Download it now.
Standards Friendly
Easily create standards-based web sites and expand your audience by making your web sites accessible from a range of browsers and devices. Easily work with XHTML and CSS through Visual Studio’s extensive palette of tools for quickly accessing XHTML and CSS properties. Create clean HTML markup and CSS layouts using ASP.NET 4 to be standards compliant. Use the built-in tools to ensure your web site is XHTML or WCAG compliant.
JavaScript Front and Center
Features such as syntax highlighting and formatting along with other IntelliSense support helps you work better with JavaScript. Take advantage of the enhanced debugging support for JavaScript and step-through and debug JavaScript just like a server side programming language. In addition, Visual Studio fully supports 3rd party JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery with features such as code auto-completion.
IntelliSense Everywhere
Improve your productivity with IntelliSense for everything from server side programming languages such as C# and Visual Basic to markup, style sheets and JavaScript libraries. Features such as syntax highlighting and auto-completion help you organize your code better and work faster. Method summary and parameter descriptions help you make informed choices without switching context.
Rich Design Surface
Increase productivity with multi-monitor support. Work in the source view with markup, use the design view to see the rendered layout or use split view to work with both at the same time. Take advantage of the ability to create multiple horizontal or vertical tab groups to compare files.
Your Manager for Everything
Manage your entire application using our comprehensive development environment. Work with web pages, classes and client libraries using the Solution Explorer. Use CSS management tools to create and edit style sheets. Connect to servers and databases using the Server Explorer. You can also incorporate web services or rich internet applications and deploy to Web servers all without ever leaving the environment.
Squash Bugs
Benefit from the rich debugging functionality. Test web applications using the built-in development server. Debug server-side code written in C# or Visual Basic, client-side script written in JavaScript, or even stored procedures written using SQL. Attach to processes, set breakpoints, step-through code, inspect variables, call stacks and more, all at your fingertips. Debug your web application in a browser of your choice letting verify cross-browser compatibility.
Take your development further with
Visual Studio 2010 Professional
Visual Studio 2010 Professional gives you everything you can find in Visual Studio Express, and then some. Download the free, 90-day trial and see what you can do when you go beyond Visual Studio Express:
- Develop for the cloud, web, Windows, and Windows Phone using the same tool
- Work with your choice of programming language without changing tools
- Create higher quality applications by adding unit testing to your process
You could win a copy of Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN
Simply download, install, and register the Visual Studio 2010 Professional trial to be eligible.
