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Re: Get Visual Studio Community 2013 for Free

#11

How is this different from Express versions?

The new version is extensible, so you can get access to the over 5,100 extensions in the Visual Studio ecosystem.[1]

It’s basically a full version of Visual Studio with no restrictions, except that you can’t use it in an enterprise setting and for teams with more than five people (you can, however, use it for any other kind of commercial and non-commercial project).

[1] https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/

Re: Get Visual Studio Community 2013 for Free

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Important info: Q: Who can use Visual Studio Community? A: Here’s how individual developers can use Visual Studio Community: Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps. Here’s how Visual Studio Community can be used in organizations: An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learni…

I didn't realize it was so permissive for businesses. They are pretty serious about loading up the pipeline.

Re: Get Visual Studio Community 2013 for Free

#15

How is this different from Express versions?

AFAIK, you cannot install extensions or plugins (e.g. ReSharper) in Express version(s).

Yeah, this seems to be the major difference. The question for me now is if they'll kill off the Express edition for the next release.

Re: Get Visual Studio Community 2013 for Free

#17
In my previous experiences with VS Express the installed version took about 10GBs of disk space and included plenty of stuff I didn't want or cared about, like various versions of MS SQL Server, support for VB, different runtimes for .NET, etc.

Anyone knows if there's a way to avoid that? I'd like to have "just an IDE", for node and web development.

Re: Get Visual Studio Community 2013 for Free

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Important info: Q: Who can use Visual Studio Community? A: Here’s how individual developers can use Visual Studio Community: Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps. Here’s how Visual Studio Community can be used in organizations: An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learni…

> In non-enterprise organizations, up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community.

That's very sloppily worded. Is it 5 concurrent users? May 5 people create a product and 4 others (after delivery) maintain it?

Re: Get Visual Studio Community 2013 for Free

#19
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What's the best option for getting Windows and running it in a VM? I have a Mac but would like to try Visual Studio.

Parellels works great for me, coding C# professionally for 6 months now. It'll make your MacBook fan run a bit here and there, but no biggie.

Re: Get Visual Studio Community 2013 for Free

#20
post #17

In my previous experiences with VS Express the installed version took about 10GBs of disk space and included plenty of stuff I didn't want or cared about, like various versions of MS SQL Server, support for VB, different runtimes for .NET, etc. Anyone knows if there's a way to avoid that? I'd like to have "just an IDE", for node and web development.

I set up a VirtualBox instance of Windows 7 with VS 2013 CE - it took up close to 30 gig with nothing else installed.
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