Visual Studio Express 2010/2012

[JohnWahren]

Does Arc 10 or 10.1 support Visual Studio Express 2010 or 2012 for ArcObjects?

[JoelCalhoun]

I believe that Arc 10 supports Visual Studio Express 2008 and 10.1 supports Visual Studio Express 2010.

[JohnWahren]

Thanks,  I will have to upgrade and give it a shot.

jw

[FreddieGibson]

I just wanted to confirm that the following configurations of Visual Studio (VS) are supported with the ArcObjects SDKs:

ArcObjects SDK 10.0 supports VS 2008 and 2010
ArcObjects SDK 10.1 supports VS 2010
ArcObjects SDK 10.2 supports VS 2010 and 2012

All of this information can be found on the following pages:
ArcObjects SDK 10.0 System Requirements
http://resources.arcgis.com/content/arcgissdks/10.0/system-requirements

ArcObjects SDK 10.1 System Requirements
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/system-requirements/10.1/index.html#//01510000006n000000

ArcObjects SDK 10.2 System Requirements
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/system-requirements/10.2/index.html#//01510000006n000000

In my experience with ArcObjects I've found that you can use other "unsupported" versions of VS to write ArcObjects code.  For example, I spend quite a bit of time writing 10.1 ArcObjects code with VS 2012.  What you'll notice if you do this is that none of the additional ArcObjects components will be integrated into Visual Studio.