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by dragonwriter 4234 days ago
> The Express versions have one language each.

That was true of most of them through 2010 (though the 2008/2010 Web Developer Express supported, IIRC, at least C# and VB.NET as backend languages.), but not the 2012/2013 versions.

The VS2012/2013 Express Editions are not language specific, but project type specific -- the 2012 editions were "for Web", "for Windows 8" (i.e., Metro/Modern UI), "for Windows Desktop", and "for Windows Phone". 2013 merged "for Windows 8" and "for Windows Phone" into "for Windows".