Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download

Post by dragonwriter » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 10:37 PM UTC

tracker1 wrote: post #106

dragonwriter wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You can use Community at work as long as you are a small enterprise (less than 5 dev) and you make less than some (huge) amount per year. $1 million annual revenue isn't exactly a huge amount.

Agreed... if you have 5 software developers, and other overhead, you'll hit that while barely at a break even point. That said, the relative costs if you have that many employees is pretty small. I don't think the break point is particularly unfair... there are lots of students, and small/indie developers that can use the Community Edition, where before you had to cobble along with the Express versions. I now use Com…

Post by X-Cubed » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 12:02 AM UTC

locusm wrote: post #112

Do any versions do away with having to login? Spent a weekend on Moreton Island last year and was unable to login, hence unable to do any work. The Partner Edition sucks for this reason.

Post by NamTaf » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 1:57 AM 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…

Post by richerlariviere » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 4:07 AM UTC

swyphcosmo wrote: post #102

richerlariviere wrote: post #89

I hope they plan to bring Visual Studio on Mac OS X

Have you seen Visual Studio Code [1]? It's not full VS, but it's a good start. [1] https://code.visualstudio.com/

Post by zuck9 » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 4:53 AM UTC

frontier wrote: post #118

zuck9 wrote: post #23

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...

How did you find this url? I would like to get the community edition ISO url, but can only find the RC dated 4/27/2015, when searching download.microsoft.com.