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I know there are basic differences like no plugins and such. But if I use Visual Studio Pro at work and want to do some ASP.NET MVC apps at home, would I find Visual Studio Express a hindrance?
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Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for writing Visual Basic and other 'Visual' branded programming languages. As a result, comparing the IDE toward the programming language isn't entirely appropriate: Visual Basic is the language you're writing in, and Visual Studio is the windows application.
Team Foundation Server 2018 Express *Visual Studio Express 2017 is available for Windows Desktop developers. This is the final version of Visual Studio Express, and there is not a UWP or Web offering for Visual Studio Express 2017 or later versions.
Visual Studio (free Community edition - since 2015) is a simplified version of the full version and replaces the separated express editions used before 2015. Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is a cross-platform (Linux, Mac OS, Windows) editor that can be extended with plugins to your needs.
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Visual Studio Expression is a free but less featureful version of Visual Studio Pro. As you've noticed it doesn't support plugins and a number of other features. It does support the editing of MVC web applications so it should be just fine for your purposes.
Here is a very useful FAQ page for Visual Studio Express
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