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Microsoft release free Community Edition of VS 2013

Started by November 12, 2014 08:07 PM
37 comments, last by imaginauteur 9 years, 11 months ago

Microsoft have just announced the release of the "Community Edition" of Visual Studio 2013.

Essentially, this is nearly the full version of VS 2013 for free, and most importantly, it means I can use resharper at home!

Only thing I can't find is what (if any) the licencing restrictions are.

if you think programming is like sex, you probably haven't done much of either.-------------- - capn_midnight
Based on the blog post I saw earlier you can do both commercial and non-commercial work with it as long as your team size is small (5 people?).
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Based on the blog post I saw earlier you can do both commercial and non-commercial work with it as long as your team size is small (5 people?).

Yep. This is great for very small studios, the community edition should be equal to the professional edition, plug-ins support included D:

They release an Android emulator too! http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2014/11/12/introducing-visual-studio-s-emulator-for-android.aspx

"Recursion is the first step towards madness." - "Skegg?ld, Skálm?ld, Skildir ro Klofnir!"
Direct3D 12 quick reference: https://github.com/alessiot89/D3D12QuickRef/
The only thing about licensing that I found so far is "This edition of Visual Studio is available at no cost for non-enterprise application development.". No idea what that means if you develop software at home and want to sell it.

The only thing about licensing that I found so far is "This edition of Visual Studio is available at no cost for non-enterprise application development.". No idea what that means if you develop software at home and want to sell it.

Here: http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs

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 learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.
  • For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise organizations, up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or > $1MM in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.
"Recursion is the first step towards madness." - "Skegg?ld, Skálm?ld, Skildir ro Klofnir!"
Direct3D 12 quick reference: https://github.com/alessiot89/D3D12QuickRef/

Yes, I've seen those, but they're kinda vague IMO. I would like to see something that says exactly what the licencing terms are.

if you think programming is like sex, you probably haven't done much of either.-------------- - capn_midnight
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Meh, 1.2 MB installer... so... web install. No full installer or ISO or such? (or maybe I'm too stupid to find it)

Meh, 1.2 MB installer... so... web install. No full installer or ISO or such? (or maybe I'm too stupid to find it)

http://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs 6.9GiB ISO ._. (edit it includes WP images)

"Recursion is the first step towards madness." - "Skegg?ld, Skálm?ld, Skildir ro Klofnir!"
Direct3D 12 quick reference: https://github.com/alessiot89/D3D12QuickRef/

Meh, 1.2 MB installer... so... web install. No full installer or ISO or such? (or maybe I'm too stupid to find it)

http://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs 6.9GiB ISO ._. (edit it includes WP images)

Great, got it, thank you very much smile.png

Now the DiskStation can do the download chores during the night, which is so much nicer...

This is a good move on their part. Something logical, finally. Maybe Microsoft is getting sense? They are making a Windows 10, which is like 7.

What went through Microsoft's head

Poor college student in debt + Expensive software = Nobody wants my software

What will you make?

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