Express 2013 Best - Vs

Before the mid-2000s, gaining access to professional-grade development tools required substantial financial investment. Microsoft introduced the Express edition ecosystem with Visual Studio 2005 to combat the rise of free, open-source text editors and alternative IDEs. The goal was simple: offer stripped-down, lightweight, and completely free versions of Visual Studio to hook the next generation of developers on the Microsoft ecosystem.

Express users were locked out of the massive ecosystem of third-party plugins (like productivity tools or theme editors) that professional developers relied on. The 2013 Breakthrough

If you have an application built specifically for .NET 4.5 that must be maintained using its original IDE.