I installed Visual Studio Community Edition this weekend...

[Andy Brummer]

I hope it wasn't these Gummi Bears[^]

Curvature of the Mind now with 3D

[Wisnu Brata]

Guess i'm the only one here happy it can run Crystal Report.

[Simon ORiordan from UK]

I would also like to add my irony-free compliments.

[JHubSharp]

According to MS it is basically the same as Professional.

[Mike Diack]

Hi Bill I'd been wondering the same? "Is it just a less restricted version of Express". But Microsoft themselves have confirmed it's basically "Professional". To quote: "Q: How does Visual Studio Community 2013 compare to other Visual Studio editions? A: 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." Look at the Q&A section on: http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs[^]

[James Curran]

In other words, still no CodeLen, unless you want to paid $12K

Truth, James

[JHubSharp]

It's software they used to charge for that is now being given away. I'm sure you can find something negative about it if you want. It's also missing load testing tools, code diagrams, all the architect tools, etc.

[Dan Neely]

Probably only for home or FOSS use; if your business is larger or has more than a handful of devs you'll still need to pay for MSDN. http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs[^]

Quote:

Q: Who can use Visual Studio Community? A: Here’s how individual developers can use Visual Studio Community: * Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps. Here’s how Visual Studio Community can be used in organizations: * An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects. * For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise organizations, up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or > $1MM in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.

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[mrmike]

Andy Brummer wrote:

I hope it wasn't these Gummi Bears[^]

I read the customer comments... they were a scream.... :-D

[Richard Meadows]

Only problem I have with it is that .Net 5 is not included.

[patbob]

The individual free Express versions didn't include the optimizer, nor the ability to use IDE addins. I don't know if that's still the case with this community version. Even if they don't include that stuff, its still great to hear that they did this.

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