That's a good news Microsoft is now offering Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition. They announced this yesterday in their Connect() event.
Visual Studio Community 2013 includes all the functionality of paid versions like Visual Studio Professional 2013. Now individual developers, students, open source contributors and small teams can use this product with zero-cost. MS intends to replace Express editions with this new Product.
Community edition supports Visual Studio extensibility which was not available with express editions. Now we can use third-party add-ons and extensions with this new release.
Compared to different express editions, Community Edition is an all-in-one product which is capable for developing applications for Desktop, Phone, web etc.
Community Edition supports Cross-platform mobile development targeting Android, iOS and Windows Phone mobile platforms using Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova extension. ie, now a mobile developer can use Visual Studio to access native device functions like camera, location service, barcode scanner etc!. (Microsoft tells they still continue to partner with Xamarin to enable cross-platform mobile development using C# and F#.).
Another important announcement came in the Connect() event was the release of Visual Studio 2015 Preview and .NET 2015 Preview.
The new open source .NET server stack can be run on Linux and Mac OS platforms. With the release of the next generation Visual Studio and .NET, Microsoft brings new enhancements to IDE, cloud and mobile development.
Along with Visual Studion 2015, Microsoft also releases a high-performance x86-based emulator for Android platform which supports location, accelerometer and networking.
Today we have the opportunity to develop for all platforms from our favourite Visual Studio, no matter it is Mobile, web or Desktop.
Visual Studio Community 2013 includes all the functionality of paid versions like Visual Studio Professional 2013. Now individual developers, students, open source contributors and small teams can use this product with zero-cost. MS intends to replace Express editions with this new Product.
Community edition supports Visual Studio extensibility which was not available with express editions. Now we can use third-party add-ons and extensions with this new release.
Compared to different express editions, Community Edition is an all-in-one product which is capable for developing applications for Desktop, Phone, web etc.
Community Edition supports Cross-platform mobile development targeting Android, iOS and Windows Phone mobile platforms using Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova extension. ie, now a mobile developer can use Visual Studio to access native device functions like camera, location service, barcode scanner etc!. (Microsoft tells they still continue to partner with Xamarin to enable cross-platform mobile development using C# and F#.).
Another important announcement came in the Connect() event was the release of Visual Studio 2015 Preview and .NET 2015 Preview.
The new open source .NET server stack can be run on Linux and Mac OS platforms. With the release of the next generation Visual Studio and .NET, Microsoft brings new enhancements to IDE, cloud and mobile development.
Along with Visual Studion 2015, Microsoft also releases a high-performance x86-based emulator for Android platform which supports location, accelerometer and networking.
Today we have the opportunity to develop for all platforms from our favourite Visual Studio, no matter it is Mobile, web or Desktop.
