I have VS 2010 at work, but at home I was thinking of just installing the express version since it might be less resource intensive?
Yes, it is much less resource intensive.
It also has many less features.
I suggest reading What is “missing” in the Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions? before making a decision.
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I would like to use two scenarios:
In first I would like to mix Visual Studio Community and Visual Studio 2015 Professional.
In second scenario I would like to mix Visual Studio 2013 Express and Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate.
Assuming that seniors will use Ultimate/Professional and other devs will use Community/Express:
Is there any differences which one will create solution? Can I create solution using Ultimate and use it with Express without any loss for Ultimate and Express versions?
Is there any differences which one will compile solution? If Express compile whole solution, will be any performance loss in comparison to compilation made by Ultimate?
VS2013
I currently work in an environment where there are people using VS2013 Ultimate, VS2013 Pro, and VS2013 Express. This project has been going for over a year and we haven't had any issues with managing the solution or solution compilation.
VS2015
I don't have any experience with VS2015 in the scenarios outlined, but based on my experience with VS2013, I can't imagine there would be any differences for your 2 questions. FYI: You can find a comparison of the VS2015 products and features here
FWIW:
We actually had some people who were using VS2013 Express upgrade to VS2015 community and that is the only time we had an issue. I can't seem to find what the issue was; but it was something with the way VS2015 did things.
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
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'm new to Visual Studio 2010 and have both Visual Studio 2005 and 2010 installed on my PC.
I need to work on a windows application that needs to run under the 2.0 .net framework, but I'm not sure which version of Visual Studio would be more suitable for developing this application. Please help me.
I'd go with 2010 - just due to the new refactoring support. And performance-wise my findings suggest that 2010 is somewhat better (especially if you have a decent workstation - especially graphics adapter).
Advantages
We can start taking advantage of the new tooling features, without having to immediately upgrade the clients and servers running our application’s to .NET 4.0.The improved multi-targeting support will ensure that this experience is even better and more accurate than before.
Disadvantages
If some of our team members still using visual studio 2005, there will be a problem when checking in project files.
Can Visual Studio 2005 Team edition for Developer coexist peacefully with Visual Studio 2008 Database edition on my machine? Are they completely separate applications that won't interfere in any way with each other?
Update:
What about Visual Studio 2008 Developer edition? If I install this on the same machine as 2008 Database edition, will it create two different 'VS 2008' installs or will they merge together as a single Visual Studio 2008 with the combined functionality?
2008 is side by side compatible with 2005. Also, be sure to apply 2008 SP1 as it will change the icon slightly so that you can tell the difference.
You can have both installed and make use of both. However, there are some caveats:
Opening a vs2005 solution with vs2008 will update to solution so that it can no longer be used in vs2005.
You can only have one default debugger on the machine, so they may fight with each other.
It's generally easier to get everyone up to vs2008 and just use that to target .Net2.0 when needed, but certainly not impossible for them to co-exist.
Generally speaking, yes that are completely separate applications. I've not tried the specific combination you mention, but I have had any number of combinations of VS 2003, VS 2005, VS 2008, and VS 2005 Express Editions all running without issue.
If VS2005 and VS2008 are mixed together on your development team, I believe you can have a VS2005 solution and a VS2008 solution and they can both load the same VS2005 projects. I'm not sure if you lose anything there (other than the VS2008-specific stuff like 3.5) but I believe it will work.
yes.
I use Visual Studio 6, Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 concurrently without any issues. [That too with all of them integrated with VSS]
Yes, they are completely separate apps that won't interfere with each other. I've been running both for over a year now.