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Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download

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

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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…

> I don't think the break point is particularly unfair...

I wasn't saying it was unfair, just that characterizing $1 million in revenue as "huge" was, well, pretty ludicrous.

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

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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.

Visual Studio encourages you to sign in with your Microsoft account, but you can license it with a product key instead.

Help -> Register Product -> License with a product key

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

#114

Has anyone done anything interesting with Roslyn to date (v1 is mentioned in the notes)?

It's perhaps also worth looking at Microsoft's CodeFormatter: https://github.com/dotnet/codeformatter

It rewrites code to match their coding style.

We used the xunitconverter (which is part of the codeformatter repo) recently to convert a whole bunch of old MS Test based unit tests to xUnit. https://github.com/dotnet/codeformatter/tree/master/src/XUni...

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

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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 comparison URL goes to a 'page not found' error for me, which is frankly astounding.

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

#117

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/

I've tried it but it's not the same feeling. However, VS Code is perfect for quick file edit.

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

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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.

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

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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.

Got it from VisualStudio.com, there is an option at the bottom in the Downloads page to get the ISO which is the same as the one in MSDN (same SHA1 values listed) but has different file names.

Here's English Community: http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/B/C/0BC321A4-013F-4...

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

#120

VS 2015 is version 14.0. VS 2013 is version 12.0. What happened to version 13.0 ?

Triskaidekaphobia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskaidekaphobia). The same thing happened to Microsoft Office - Office 2007 was version 12 internally, yet Office 2010 jumped to version 14. On the plus side, it means that the upcoming release (Office 2016) has an internal version number that matches the year.

I guess the question is whether the people at Microsoft who decide these things are themselves superstitious or whether they think their customers are superstitious (to the point that they would avoid a product with an unlucky internal version number).

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