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You don't need to spend €1000 to develop for Windows. Visual Studio Community Edition [1] is free to use for individuals, even for developing paid applications.
by quanticle 6y ago
You don't need to spend €1000 to develop for Windows. Visual Studio Community Edition [1] is free to use for individuals, even for developing paid applications. Even if you're running a multi-developer business, Visual Studio Professional can be had for far less than €1000.
What you're referring to is the top-tier MSDN subscription, which is something that very few organizations will require.
[1]: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/ https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/
- pjmlp 6y agoCommunity has several restrictions for any business with more than 5 developers or more than a specific profit limit.
- quanticle 6y agoRight, which is why I was careful to state that Community was for individuals, and Professional was for multi-developer organizations. This is in contrast with Apple, which requires you to pay $99 regardless of whether you're an individual or a corporate entity.
- pjmlp 6y agoYeah, but lets not forget that community also is relatively recent, having replaced the Express editions, which were worthless beyond learning purposes, as per license.
- GoblinSlayer 6y agoRecently tried to compile scintilla in visual studio, but gave up figuring out how to tune all settings in the IDE and compiled with nmake instead, the make file was very transparent and hackable with everything in plain sight.