Please i'm confused, I need to buy Visual Studio Express 2013 for my software development need. I couldn't find visual studio express 2013 in the market. I was told that visual studio express 2013 and visual studio 2013 are same product. Is this right?
Visual Studio Express (whatever year/version it has) was the free 'light' version of the Visual Studio product, with some of the more powerful features missing.
However, for VS-2013 (and later versions), you can download the "Community" version of the full product for free. The Community versions have most (all?) of the main features included but cannot be used for commercial software development. Also, you don't get the full on-line technical support that the "Professional" and "Enterprise" versions include in the purchase price.