Does Visual Studio Express support .NET Core

Question

I am working for a big organization, but it doesn't want to spend on Visual Studio licences & .NET Framework licences.

Microsoft has released .NET Core which is free & opensource. Now my question is: does the Visual Studio Express (which is freeware) work on the .NET Core framework (also free & opensource)?

Answer 1

You can use the free Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition. It fully supports .NET Core development.

Be aware, you can use the Community edition only if you have less than 250 PCs and less than $1 million in annual revenues. Up to 5 of your individual users can use the software concurrently to develop and test your applications.

If you are an enterprise, your employees and contractors may not use the software to develop or test your applications, except for open source, Visual Studio extensions, and education purposes as permitted above. An “enterprise” is any organization and its affiliates who collectively have either (a) more than 250 PCs or users or (b) one million U.S. dollars (or the equivalent in other currencies) in annual revenues, and “affiliates” means those entities that control (via majority ownership), are controlled by, or are under common control with an organization.

See the usage rights here.