


There are several different editions of Visual Studio, starting with the free Express editions and then continuing with the Professional, Premium, and Ultimate editions that cost money and have additional features. So in that sense, your question may really be "What's the difference between Visual Basic Express (Visual Studio Express) and Visual Studio?" It's called Visual Basic Express in the Start menu and the title bar, even though it's really Visual Studio Express underneath. However, when you download Visual Basic Express, you are really downloading Visual Studio Express with appropriate components to make Visual Basic programs. So in that sense, it doesn't quite make sense to compare the IDE to the programming language: Visual Studio is like the text editor, Visual Basic is like the language you are writing in. Visual Studio is the integrated development environment (IDE) used to create programs in Visual Basic or the other 'Visual' named languages.
