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Re: Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download

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Post by JohnTHaller » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 2:55 PM UTC

Note that the "comparison" page offers near-zero guidance on whether you're allowed to use the Community edition, to the point that it's really not a comparison at all: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs-2015-product-editions

The community edition is free for individual developers, developers creating open source projects under an approved OSI license, or for up to 5 developers in an entire organization. Basically, it's not for production use by companies with more than 5 developers developing proprietary software. At least from my quick reading of the license: https://www.visualstudio.com/support/legal/mt171547

UPDATE: Community also excludes any organization with 250+ PCs or $1,000,000 or more in yearly revenue. (credit: icegreentea)

Re: Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download

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Post by Olivier26 » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 2:58 PM UTC

Any idea for the availibility of the Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2015?

Re: Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download

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Post by zuck9 » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 2:58 PM UTC

Here's the direct download link for the English Enterprise edition which I'm downloading using wget: http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/4/7/647EC5B1-68BE-4...

Re: Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download

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Post by asherdavidson » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 2:59 PM UTC

stinos wrote: post #6

saticmotion wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Appears to be available here: https://www.dreamspark.com/Product/Product.aspx?productid=10...

Didn't DreamSpark used to have the Pro edition? Now for both 2013 and 2015 it's the community edition

Yes. In fact I downloaded the pro version about two weeks ago, so it seems they only removed it relatively recently. I hope they add pro 2015.

Re: Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 3:03 PM UTC

JohnTHaller wrote: post #21

Note that the "comparison" page offers near-zero guidance on whether you're allowed to use the Community edition, to the point that it's really not a comparison at all: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs-2015-product-editions The community edition is free for individual developers, developers creating open source projects under an approved OSI license, or for up to 5 developers in an entire organization. Basically, it's…

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Re: Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download

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Post by icegreentea » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 3:05 PM UTC

JohnTHaller wrote: post #21

Note that the "comparison" page offers near-zero guidance on whether you're allowed to use the Community edition, to the point that it's really not a comparison at all: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs-2015-product-editions The community edition is free for individual developers, developers creating open source projects under an approved OSI license, or for up to 5 developers in an entire organization. Basically, it's…

That's a pretty good summary. The only extra catch is that enterprise organizations cannot use the community edition except for open source / educational purposes. The kicker is that they define enterprise as 250+ PCs -OR- $1 million plus annual revenue.

That definitely borks a lot of smallish companies working in certain fields.

Re: Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download

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Post by detay » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 3:09 PM UTC

mariusmg wrote: post #19

Installing the enterprise version now. Hopefully it works fine side by side with 2013.

I had 2015 RC working side by side with 2013 with no problems. Full release should work properly as well.

Re: Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download

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Post by JohnTHaller » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 3:11 PM UTC

icegreentea wrote: post #26

JohnTHaller wrote: post #21

Note that the "comparison" page offers near-zero guidance on whether you're allowed to use the Community edition, to the point that it's really not a comparison at all: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs-2015-product-editions The community edition is free for individual developers, developers creating open source projects under an approved OSI license, or for up to 5 developers in an entire organization. Basically, it's…

That's a pretty good summary. The only extra catch is that enterprise organizations cannot use the community edition except for open source / educational purposes. The kicker is that they define enterprise as 250+ PCs -OR- $1 million plus annual revenue. That definitely borks a lot of smallish companies working in certain fields.

Thanks for the additional note, I updated my post. I wish Microsoft would just post a real, actual comparison instead of just linking to summary pages and forcing you to read licenses. That's just about as user-unfriendly as it gets.

Re: Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download

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Post by highmastdon » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 3:16 PM UTC

Too bad this does only contain the preview of .NET 5. I hoped this release would bring a more stable version of .NET 5

Re: Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download

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Post by WorldWideWayne » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 3:16 PM UTC

Warning to anyone using Windows 2012 Server R2 as your workstation - if you install Microsoft Emulator for Android, it enables Hyper-V which will cause your video drivers to no longer work since Hyper-V replaces your video card with a virtual one (or something like that).