BIDS from the Express Edition media is just one variation of a program built on the Visual Studio Shell. Beyond that you are just adding Project Templates to your machine as you install additional programs also built on the Visual Studio Shell. You could even think of Visual Studio Professional Edition this way in that it adds a bunch more Project Templates to your machine when you install it, e.g. C# Class Libraries, ASP.NET Websites, etc. Express Edition does not add many Project Templates to the machine. I am not sure what they are, but there are not many. As you have found Integration Services Projects is not one of them. I would not even bother with the Express Edition install. You can just install BIDS from the Standard Edition media on top of what you already have.