I have just started to learn asp.net and have downloaded the free web developer express, and am very impressed with all the resources that are on hand to help one develop the skills needed. Am I right in thinking that once your skills have reached a certain standard that Microsoft Visual Studio would be a natural progression? In other words, Visual Studio is much a more powerful, professional and upgraded version of web developer.
It depends more on what features you need. With the free version, you'll need to download a free Visual Studio Express version (i.e. C#, VB.NET, C++) to create DLLs for you to share between web projects. For example, many people build custom web controls or build a DLL to hold useful classes that are used in most projects. This may get to be a hassle for you.
Visual Studio allows you to do all of this in one location, and with the new Service Pack 1, you can manage all projects within a web application (this option was removed with the move from 2003 to 2005, for some reason, then added back in). You can also add extensibility to Visual Studio, i.e. another company builds a product that helps you code faster, or it automatically formats your code, etc.
Different versions offer different features.http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700921.aspx
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