I am looking to build serverless application with .Net Core. Visual Studio will be a good choice.
Could the Community be used to develop commercial application? (not individual developers)
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I was wondering whether I need the Enterprise version of VS2019 to create In-House Distribution for Xamarin.iOS Apps or Pro would suffice?
Also, what would be benefit for Mobile when using Enterprise vs. Professional?
Thanks,
Alex
When we check Compare Visual Studio 2019 Editions,we will find each version has all the features of the previous version, as well as additional features.
With Visual Studio Professional, it’s an excellent choice for most developers. For software architects though, Visual Studio Enterprise might make sense, as long as you have plenty of budget. But if you don’t, a lot of plugins in the Visual Studio ecosystem can help you get VS Enterprise’s features in ala carte fashion.
For creating In-House Distribution for Xamarin.iOS Apps, the Visual Studio Community is suffice, let alone the professional version.
I have been out of .NET and normal software development world for half year (new job needs me to use MS Dynamics) and now looking to learn Android (for hobby). I have options to either learn Xamarin or just go native. I'm not sure which one would be better in long term. I'm more comfortable in C# than Java, but that's only because I did 5 years in C# and stopped Java after university. Going back to Java should just be a minor problem.
My concern now is the cost/licence limitation on Xamarin.
Can I learn Xamarin for free? I'm guessing this is a yes ever since Microsoft bought them, right?
Is there any limits on the size of codes, whatever for Xamarin that will force me to buy the licence?
Short question is: Is Xamarin totally free - starting from learning-development-publishing?
Note: The only limitation is there are some additional tools that are only available to Visual Studio Enterprise license holders, other than that, have fun coding.
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/features/xamarin-vs
Now with Xamarin
Deliver native Android, iOS, and Windows apps, with a single shared C# codebase
https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-for-all/
Visual Studio now includes Xamarin
As of today, we are including Xamarin in Visual Studio at no extra cost.
Xamarin will be in every edition of Visual Studio, including the widely-available Visual Studio Community Edition, which is free for individual developers, open source projects, academic research, education, and small professional teams. Develop and publish native apps for iOS and Android with C# or F# from directly within Visual Studio with no limits on app size.
For developers on the Mac, Xamarin Studio is now available as a benefit of your Visual Studio Professional or Enterprise subscription. Developers can use the newly-created Xamarin Studio Community Edition for free.
Download: http://aka.ms/xam1
You can learn about Xamarin for free with MVA courses, an edX course and Charles Petzold's book. Find these resources here:
MVA, edX, book
Channel9
My question is What is difference between Visual Studio Express Edition for Desktop and
Visual Studio Community version?
I want use VS to create Desktop apps, currently I have ultimate version of VS2013, but I think mentioned versions are lighter and faster and FULL FREE for me because I don't use most of developing features like Team server or Testing tools or IntelliTrace, .... I want know the mentioned versions have full Windows API Support (Header files definition) like Ultimate/Enterprise versions?
Don't forget my first question: VS Express for Desktop vs Community, because both are FREE.
Community edition is the full fledged software, but you can't use it on enterprise (>5 users)
On the other hand, Express editions can be used in enterprise environments, but does not let you use plugins.
So in the end, as far as I can tell the choice is between plugins and enterprise. If it's just a product you are developing yourself, or an open source software, Community edition would be your best bet. On the other hand, if you want to try out the latest version at your work for free, then Express edition is for you.
Here is from the "source" :)
Differences between Visual Studio Community Edition and Express Editions
Here is a quote from that MSDN blog:
There are two main differences between Visual Studio Community Edition
and the Express Editions
1) Visual Studio Express Editions do not allow users to use extensions
(aka. plugins). There are over 5000 great plugins for Visual Studio
in Visual Studio Gallery. Plugins such as Developer Assistant can
boost developers’ productivity. Unfortunately, they are not available
to Visual Studio Express users. With Visual Studio Community
Edition, you can access and use All of them!
2) Visual Studio Express Editions are targeting specific platforms:
Express for Web allows you to develop Web apps; Express for Windows
allows you to develop Windows apps; Express for Windows Desktop allows
you to develop desktop apps. But with Visual Studio Community
Edition, you can develop projects targeting cross-platforms.
Community is like a full version of Visual Studio Professional, only they don't allow you to develop for commercial purposes (through the licence agreement). With the exception for developing apps that you sell in the Windows Store.
Why you would want Community (dito for VS Professional):
You can develop a mix of different projects in the same solution on the same IDE. With Express you develop asp.net and other web apps (Express for Web) in different IDE's than you would developing a Windows Forms applicaiton (Express for Win Forms).
You get full access to plugins that enhance the IDE, like code optimisation tools.
Other than Professional, Community is integrated with a lot of online collaboration sites. Like integration to GIT repos and Windows Azure hosting.
Express is like the old school express versions, if you used to use the old school express versions, you probably want to stick to it. It allows for commercial development, but they restrict the features of the IDE. And they make it harder to use by splitting the IDE to only handle Web Applications (like ASP.Net) in one IDE and a different IDE for handling Windows Forms. (In the past they also split the Win Forms IDEs to only handle one coding language like C# or VB).
Here is the official comparison
I think IntelliTrace is the most important part missing in the community edition. Cloning the repo some similar things are missing. but I don't think those are any real problems.
Hi All and apologies if this has been asked already, but I can't find a comprehensive answer anywhere.
I require the ability to develop Desktop applications as well as ASP.NET web projects, I have tried the express versions of the Desktop and Web versions but would like to deploy these projects in a business environment and I am aware that the express licence does not permit this.
So my question is, Does Visual studio 2013 professional allow the development of both Desktop and Web applications or do I need to buy two versions of Visual Studio 2013?
Thanks for taking the time to read this post.
If you look at the Feature Comparison chart for the various editions of Visual Studio, it shows that the Ultimate, Premium and Professional editions of Visual Studio all support development for web and various types of desktop applications. The entire list is in the 'Development Platform Support' section.
This feature comparison will also show you all the features that you may or not need in your development practice.
http://www.visualstudio.com/products/compare-visual-studio-products-vs
I am setting up a new development environment for a small team, currently we are only 2 developers, and mainly we will be using the following frameworks:-
Asp.net MVC framework to build some web application from scratch.
SharePoint 2010 or 2013 to build an intranet/extranet application.
So I have settled on the following development tools to be able to build asp.net MVC web applications + to extend and build SharePoint application:-
Visual studio 2012 for building the web applications for both MVC & SharePoint.
Team foundation server 2012, to have version control, bug tracking , etc.
My question is the following:-
Since I will need the SharePoint 2013 templates so I cannot go with the express version of visual studio 2012? since the VS express version does no provide enterprise features such as SharePoint templates.
But will using TFS express suit my situation?
I have read that Microsoft provides a free plan where I can get free Visual Studio Professional 2012 & Team Foundation Server with all the enterprise features since I have less than 5 users (in my case 2 developers) and of course I can upgrade the free plan when the team grow.
So will getting the free plan from Microsoft work well in my case, especially
for having the SharePoint templates inside the visual studio 2012?
Best Regards