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Does anyone have experience with the free VS Shell mentioned in the article as the foundation for putting together a free of cost installation? How does it com

• overgard 13y ago
  I think the idea of the visual studio shell is to have sort of a blank slate of an IDE for people to write their own plugins for. There's no language support, just the blank canvas. Anyway microsoft doesn't provide support for their core languages (C#/C++/VB) for the shell, so the main consequence is that, in the shell you basically get all the languages microsoft /doesn't/ directly support in visual studio, but nothing else. Whereas in the express editions you have an IDE you can't extend, but each edition supports one of microsoft's core languages.
• smortaz 13y ago
  overgard is correct. Our PTVS + integrated/isolated shell basically gives you a virtual "Python Express". However recently msft has moved away from the "Express" model to "Scenario" models. ie, VS for Phone, VS for Desktop, VS for Web, etc. and each includes all the tools and multiple languages you might need for that workload. We're hoping to include PTVS into the desktop & Web scenarios in the future. [disclaimer: project lead]
  • patja 13y ago
    That would be cool. I've been enjoying how much I can accomplish using VS Express for Web and Desktop. It is a little annoying having to install both of these, but beggars can't be choosers, right?