Licence limitations of Visual Studio Express and SQL server compact edition 4.0

For developers who want to own - without the need to work more manufacturing team, produce a software dedicated to one particular platform, there is a family of Visual Studio Express. The families of these products are available in the following versions:
- Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone,
- Web Developer 2010 Express,
- Visual Basic 2010 Express,
- Visual C # 2010 Express,
- Visual C + + 2010 Express.

Each of these products allows you to create professional applications, dedicated to a single platform, or using a single programming techniques. In addition, these solutions are tailored to individual developers working alone, because, inter alia, do not allow for integration with Team Foundation Server and group work with this solution.

Families Visual Studio Express products can be used for commercial activities, and applications made ​​for her using can be sold.

More about:
- Visual Studio products - http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products[^],
- editions of Visual Studio - http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/product-comparison[^],
- Visual Studio Express - http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/express#whatIsExpress[^].

As good as i know compact version of MS SQL Server is a free, embedded database that software developers can use for building ASP.NET websites and Windows desktop applications.
More about it: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/editions/2012-editions/compact.aspx[^]

Quote:

Visual Studio Express 2012 Products

A number of free development tools are also available, including Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8, Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web, Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop, and Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Phone 8. These tools provide a subset of the functionality available in Visual Studio Professional 2012 and are specific to writing applications targeting these platforms. Each of these Visual Studio Express 2012 products is licensed per user and
subject to the use terms included with the product. Visual Studio Express can be used to build production applications.

Above quote is taken from the Visual Studio 2012 and MSDN Licensing White Paper, which can be downloaded here[^].

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