I used to have DevPartner Profiler Community Edition installed on my machine, which was free to use indefinitely and was compatible with Visual Studio 2003.
After I have rebuild my machine and downloaded a newer version (version 8.1) of the software, it turns out it is actually a 45 day trial eventhough it is still called a Community Edition.
I have tried looking for an older version, but haven't been able to find it.
Could someone help me out please?
Billy, Compuware retired the Community Edition profiler years ago and pulled it from any web sites. That profiler was used as a marketing tool. Folks were supposed to use the profiler then request an upgrade to the full DevPartner Studio suite. Because that didn't really pan out they yanked down the profiler. Under Micro Focus, you can now obtain the full suite but license just the profiler at a much lower price point than the full suite. I suggest you look at http://www.microfocus.com under MF Developer at the different offerings. Shameless plug: I work on the DevPartner team. We are releasing our 64-bit profiler editions in version 10.5 on February 4, 2011. Check out the download eval once its posted.
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This seems like a weird problem. I've just upgraded to a brand new PC and I can't for the life of me work out where I can get visual studios 2010 from. I have my product key ready to go.
Has MS discontinued this product? If so is there a work around? Is my only option to (dare I say it) upgrade.
According to Microsoft there's no more Visual Studio 2010 for download from their (official) site.
Personally I really recommend you go straight to 2017 Community Edition - it has everything the 2010 Professional has and more.
The "more" includes built-in support for GitHub, "almost" full support for C++11 and some support for C++14, Windows 10 SDK, parallel builds, built-in support for Linux remote build/debugging... The list goes on and on.
Are there any disadvantage when creating a commercial software in a Visual Studio Ultimate trial version? Can you please point out some effects of a trial version in case I create a simple software from it. Thanks
Well the biggest disadvantage is that if you want to actually distribute the software you have created using the trial version then you are breaking the EULA. Other than that, no, it has the same capabilities as the full version of VS Ultimate.
If you are looking to purchase a version of Visual Studio, you might want to look into getting a cheaper version like VS Professional (US$800 vs US$3800!).
Or if you are just having a play around, why not try one of the Express versions: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/express.
From Microsoft site:
"Customers can evaluate Visual Studio 2010 editions free for 90 days. After 30 days, customers must register trials of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Premium, and Professional to obtain a free key which extends the trial an additional 60 days."
So there is no drawback other than you can't support anything you created with a nonfunctional software after 90 days (and breaking the license as link664 pointed out). If you're doing commercially software you should consider buying a license. For start ups there are programs like BizSpark which make the investments lower. If you do not want to pay anything look for an alternative. There is SharpDevelop out there.
I've read from a non reliable source that purchasing VS2010 Upgrade Edition (As opposed to full retail) is a valid licensing route when 'upgrading' from VS Express (free) - Can anyone confirm or refute this?
Thank you
It looks like this is true:
Before you buy
Eligible for upgrade with any previous
version of Visual Studio or any other
developer tool.
Visual Studio 2010 Professional
includes a 12-month MSDN Essentials
subscription. MSDN Essentials gives
you access to core Microsoft
platforms: Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows
Server 2008 Enterprise R2, and
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Datacenter
R2.
Special information for trial users
If you're using a trial version of
Visual Studio Professional and you buy
the Visual Studio 2010 Professional
Upgrade, you can use the product key
you get on the receipt page to convert
your trial version to a full version.
This seems to say that you can upgrade from any competing product or any existing version of Visual Studio, even a trial one. It doesn't explicitly mention the Express edition, but you could always install the trial version and upgrade that instead.
I sell software and didn't want to violate the license agreement. So, I chatted with a MS rep (and have the chat log), then called the licensing number and was told the same thing from both. The upgrade license is valid from ANY prior version (including express). I asked about express specifically and more than once and was told this was just fine.
I downloaded VS 2010 RC and want to try it out.
Can I use it to create commercial software?
When will the final version be released?
The final version of Visual Studio 2010 will probably be released on April 12th, 2010.
However, you can already use the release candidates of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 which both are go live releases (since Beta 2). This means that there will be no breaking changes in the final release versus RC that will make your software unusable, and that they are licensed for developing and deploying production applications.
As with all Visual Studio versions, it is possible to target another earlier .NET framework version, that is you can still develop for .NET 2.0 as an example.
It is also possible to – and in fact a good idea – install Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate side-by-side with other versions of Visual Studio.
All in all I see no risk in trying out Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate. It is obvious that it is not the most stable piece of software at this moment, but certainly usable.
You can still target previous Framework versions so if you want to develop applications there is no reason why it should be any different. The issue would come if you tried to develop .Net 4 solutions as there will not be many people using that yet, especially commercially
Believe the final version will be released end of March. Until then you can't distribute it to customers as the .NET 4.0 installer won't be made available to them.
Is it wise to do so? Well it probably depends on your product. If it's mission critical I'd wait till it's been used for a bit and any bugs are ironed out of .NET 4.0 via service packs. For normal applications I don't really see why not, it's had some pretty rigorous testing internally and by dev's I'm sure.
As long as you're not targeting the 4.0 runtime, you can use it to develop and deploy applications today.
Visual Studio 2010 can target previous versions of the .NET framework, so that's not a problem. However, projects or solutions that were created or modified with Visual Studio 2010 cannot be opened by Visual Studio 2008 without manually editing the project files. So I would definitely not recommend upgrading to VS2010 if you work on a team and your teammates still use VS2008.
I tried vs 2010 beta 2 with a MFC application. The intelisense is improved but the compilers has some problems - sometimes it just freezes and I have to restart VS. Maybe this was fixed in the RC version that was released a few days ago.
Take in consideration that you might have to pay a price (instability) for new technologies.
Work on whatever you want, but I think you should study your customers, as to what OS do they use, are they looking to upgrade, the effects of net 4.0 on your application, etc...
Whenever these things come out, there should always be a phasing plan in place. Although, it's more work, I personally think that it's a great approach
VS2010 is not yet released for commercial use. So if you are using it for commercial use, it is not appropriate. Though it was planned for March 2010 release, you can expect it with some possible delay.
I want to try the latest VS2010 RC. But I am not very comfortable installing it on my production machine.
For Beta2 there were VirtualPC images available at Microsoft which I cannot find for the RC.
Did I overlook them or doesn't MS provide them?
There's not going to be a VM of this it looks like since RTM is in just over a month now. I guess they figured they'll get enough feedback on speed improvements from non-VM users that it's not worth it to support them in the RC?
I don't know the exact reasoning, but I wouldn't expect one to appear before RTM.
However, that's not to say you can't load up a VM and just install the VS 2010 RC ISO (found here!) on it.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=5e13b15a-fd74-4cd7-b53e-bdf9456855bd&displaylang=en