Visual Studio Express alternatives and similar packages

Based on the "IDE" category.

Visual Studio Code

10.0 10.0 Visual Studio Express VS Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code
MonoDevelop

8.9 1.7 L2 Visual Studio Express VS MonoDevelop

MonoDevelop is a cross platform .NET IDE

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Visual Studio Community

8.9 0.0 L3 Visual Studio Express VS Visual Studio Community

GitHub Extension for Visual Studio
SharpDevelop

8.4 0.0 L3 Visual Studio Express VS SharpDevelop

A free IDE for .NET programming languages
RoslynPad

7.5 2.2 Visual Studio Express VS RoslynPad

A cross-platform C# editor based on Roslyn and AvalonEdit
AvalonStudio

7.0 0.0 Visual Studio Express VS AvalonStudio

Cross platform IDE and Shell
Consulo

5.4 9.8 Visual Studio Express VS Consulo

Platform repository of Consulo. Plugins implementation hold in their repositories
Waf DotNetPad

3.2 0.0 L4 Visual Studio Express VS Waf DotNetPad

The Waf DotNetPad is a simple and fast code editor that makes fun to program with C# or Visual Basic.
CSharp Analyzer by MongoDB

2.0 10.0 Visual Studio Express VS CSharp Analyzer by MongoDB

The MongoDB Analyzer is a free tool that helps you understand how your code translates into the MongoDB Query API.
Rider

- Visual Studio Express VS Rider

A cross-platform C# IDE based on the IntelliJ platform and ReSharper
vvvv

- Visual Studio Express VS vvvv

A visual live-programming environment for .NET [Free for OSS]
Ionide

- Visual Studio Express VS Ionide

An Atom Editor and Visual Studio Code package suite for cross platform F# development.