What is "missing" in the Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions?

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Solution

The major areas where Visual Studio Express lacks features compared to Visual Studio Professional:

- No add-ins/macros

- Some Win32 tools missing

- No Team Explorer support

- Limited refactoring support

- Debugging is much more limited (particularly problematic for server development is no remote debugging)

- Lack of support for setup projects

- No report creation tools

- No Office development support

- No mobile platform support

- Limited set of designers

- Limited set of database tools

- No code profiling or test framework support

- No MFC/ATL support

- No support for compiling C++ to 64-bit images (workaround is to install Windows SDK which is free)

NOTE: it is often said that the Express EULA does not permit commercial development - that is not true (Visual Studio Express FAQ Item 7)

Problem

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