Is Visual Studio Community edition able to use my repositories on the Visual Studio Online account?
I have been paying $50 monthly for Visual Studio Online Professional which is included in the Online account, but now I'm really wondering do I still need to pay that. I have few projects on the Online account which I can't give up, but I understand the included Pro is pretty much same as the Community edition. So why am I really paying it anymore? Do I lose my online projects or something if I stop paying?
Let me see if I can help out here with sorting out some details. There's a few things to understand about the Visual Studio IDE and access to a Visual Studio Online account. Let's start with some basics:
Each Visual Studio Online account allows up to five users access to the basic capabilities of Visual Studio Online. Essentially, you only pay for Visual Studio Online Basic per-user fees once you have reached your sixth person. The Visual Studio Online Basic user plan doesn't provide any access to a specific IDE so you "bring your own IDE" whether it's Visual Studio, Eclipse, Xcode, etc.
Visual Studio Online Professional includes the basic capabilities of Visual Studio Online as well as access to the Visual Studio Professional IDE on a monthly rental.
Visual Studio Community has a EULA that has some restrictions on how you are able to use it currently essentially has the same set of capabilities as Visual Studio Professional with some minor differences. Most notably, if you are an enterprise building commercial applications, you aren't able to use Visual Studio Community. There's more details available here and here.
Therefore, in your case, if you meet the conditions of the Visual Studio Community edition's EULA, then you should be good to go with using Visual Studio Community and one of your free Visual Studio Online basic licenses.
I would say no, you don't lose anything. The free account still has all the benefits your Pro account does, just without the VS Pro access: http://www.visualstudio.com/pricing/visual-studio-online-pricing-vs
VS Pro usually runs around $750, so if you're keeping it for 2 years it makes sense to buy it outright. If you don't need the advanced features of Pro, the community edition will work just fine.
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Got an error thats says i have an VS 13 premium
Log here:
http://pastebin.ru/NMCjzeNz
Reinstalling the VS13 using installer don't solve problem.
HOWTO?!
VS 2013 Pro and VS 2013 Community Edition are essentially the same product. With the only difference being licensing terms, there are undoubtedly conflicts between components.
Q: Isn’t Visual Studio Community really just Visual Studio
Professional?
A: While the two editions share the same features
today, the licensing terms determine who can use this product. We
continue to invest in our paid offerings including MSDN subscription
benefits and services, which many Visual Studio Professional users can
take advantage of today.
Link
I am considering creating a simple ribbon tab with a few options that would significantly increase my productivity at work.
As far as I see from MSDN, I can only do this by using MS Visual Studio, but I don't really want to purchase one (though I am keen to share the code as an open source project).
Do you know if I can do this using Community Edition of the software or I need a Professional edition at least?
Answer is Yes, i.e you can do this using Community edition of Visual Studio.
If i can ask this here: since there is tons of people that use Visual Studio here i would like to know why i should buy Visual Studio Professional.
I'm using Visual Studio Express.
What i can do/ or what/why it would make my life easy with Pro edition?
And one think that i don't get, i need to renew every year it?
Or is it lifetime?
I just renew if i want a new version?
The "plugins" is really better or can i live without it?
The table in Microsoft site don't compare express version with others.
Ty
You shouldn't buy it, at least not if you're a solo developer or small company.
Microsoft now provide their Visual Studio Community Edition at no cost, and it's a big step up from the Express editions.
Visual Studio Community 2013 includes all the great functionality of Visual Studio Professional 2013, designed and optimized for individual developers, students, open source contributors, and small teams.
So, if you're a small shop, that's the one I'd be looking at.
I am planning to buy Visual Studio 2012 Professional, but I see two options:
Visual Studio 2012 Professional with MSDN and Visual Studio 2012 Professional.
What are the extra features of Visual Studio 2012 Professional with MSDN?
Among other things With MSDN you get Azure (cloud) credits, access to developer licenses for most Microsoft OSes (great for testing) and you have the ability to download all past Visual Studio products (2010, 2005 etc) as well as future ones. Future being - new releases of VS that come out during your subscription period. MSDN subscribers use to get updates on CDs/DVDS in quarterly shipments (via snail mail) although MS is dropping that. All downloads will be online.
The only thing I don't know is if Visual Studio 2012 with MSDN entitles you to use Visual Studio Online (effectively you do development in the cloud). I believe it does but don't quote me on that.
If you don't need access to OSes for testing, don't need to get newer versions of Visual Studio (or get past ones) then it might not be worth the money.
What is the difference between purchasing Visual Studio 2010 Express, and downloading Visual Web Developer 2010 Express?
Although I created a company website using Visual Web Developer 2010 Express (I love this product!), I'm not an experienced programmer. But I'm wondering if Visual Studio 2010 Express is just as good, or better, and if it will do the same things as VWD.
I just can't google any good links that compares the two.
Microsoft has it:
MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO - microsoft.com
and Definition of
Microsoft Visual Studio Express - Wikipedia
Just click on learn more in each product to see their differences.
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On the "Visual Studio Express 2010" disk VS2010Express.iso which I downloaded from Microsoft it turned out that Visual Studio Express consist of:
Visual C#,
Visual Basic,
Visual C++,
"Visual Web developer".
So to answer the original question here I think that Visual Web developer is one part of the whole disk called Visual Studio. But don't go there if you do not have to:
I am currently upgrading from Visual Studio 2008 because of the bug in .Net 2.0 / 3.5 related to not being able to work with (not recognizing) Internet Explorer 10, but now I get bugs related to App_GlobalResources. The whole Globalization function just does not work anymore. I am in a Hackathon nightmare of 48 hours trying to survive. I think that MS wanted to get you all on board with the free express edition but it is payback time now. I think I am going back to Uniface which is upward compatible. Once again, there is no such thing as free!!!