I’m going to make an MVC2 application using C#.
Which IDE can I use for free that will help me build this application? The different versions are very confusing to make out.
I’m going to be following this tutorial:
http://nerddinnerbook.s3.amazonaws.com/Part1.htm
I see it makes use of Unit Testing. Can an express version do this?
Yes…. you definitely can.
Get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/express/Web/
You can’t do unit testing with Microsoft’s testing framework when using the express edition. Which is not really a big deal. You can still use any of the many, many open source unit testing frameworks out there.
More about it in video on Channel 9: Noah Coad: An Overview of Visual Studio Express 2010
As an additional information: useful link to a page that compares in a table Microsoft Visual Studio versions and features: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products