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> I'm not sure if I could commercially use it as a solo dev either. Yes, you can. There's no restriction on using the Community edition of Visual Studio for c
by hermitdev 7y ago
> I'm not sure if I could commercially use it as a solo dev either.
Yes, you can. There's no restriction on using the Community edition of Visual Studio for commercial products. I think there may have been initially when MS offered a free edition (initially called Express), and SQL Server express, now Compact edition, has some limitations like only one concurrent connection, and I think a 1 GB DB size limit.
There's also VS Code, which is completely free and has great support for a lot of languages through extensions.
Edit: should note, too, that thw .Net compilers have shipped with the .Net Framework since v1.0. So, technically, you dont even need Visual Studio to build a .Net app. Likewise for C++, MS has included their optimizing compiler with the Windows SDK, I think since WinXP, may have been more recent. You dont get a friendly debugger (youd need to us WinDbG) or IDE experience, but you can build.