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Looks interesting. I'm hoping they move CodeLens from being a VS Ultimate only feature to the lower editions (Premium maybe?) in '14' as it looks really powerf

Looks interesting. I'm hoping they move CodeLens from being a VS Ultimate only feature to the lower editions (Premium maybe?) in '14' as it looks really powerful but the pricing on Ultimate is pretty far outside of most developers' reasonable expense range. Seems there is significant demand on this but the UserVoice ticket was closed in April this year. https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/4150271-make-codelens-available-outside-of-ultimate https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-stud...

cpayne 12y ago
Have you seen the Bizspark program?[1] I never really understand the argument against Microsoft software being out of the range of reasonable expenses. Certainly for all the corporates I have worked at, Ultimate is well within their budget. But Ultimate really comes with all the bells and whistles. If money really is an issue, and you find you must "Collect and analyse runtime diagnostic data from production systems" or "Reliably capture and reproduce bugs found during manual and exploratory testing to eliminate "no repro" bugs" then there are better tools out there. I've worked for a long time with Premium[2] and never felt like I was missing features... [1] http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/faqs.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/faqs.aspx [2] http://www.microway.com.au/microsoft/visual-studio-2013-compare-editions.php http://www.microway.com.au/microsoft/visual-studio-2013-comp...
- joshschreuder 12y ago
  I think it's more that CodeLens appears to be far less of a niche feature than the others exclusive to Ultimate, which has people up in arms a bit because it looks universally useful to all developers (but not useful enough on its own to justify the extra $10K or so if you're not using other Ultimate features). We have MSDN access here, but that only offers Premium, not Ultimate. So yeah, I run Premium day-to-day also, but I definitely feel like I would benefit from CodeLens in my dev workflow (especially with the upcoming Git integration in VS2013 Update 3).
  - cpayne 12y ago
    CodeLens - Yes, I see, you make a fair point...

cpayne 12y ago

Have you seen the Bizspark program?[1] I never really understand the argument against Microsoft software being out of the range of reasonable expenses. Certainly for all the corporates I have worked at, Ultimate is well within their budget. But Ultimate really comes with all the bells and whistles. If money really is an issue, and you find you must "Collect and analyse runtime diagnostic data from production systems" or "Reliably capture and reproduce bugs found during manual and exploratory testing to eliminate "no repro" bugs" then there are better tools out there. I've worked for a long time with Premium[2] and never felt like I was missing features... [1] http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/faqs.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/faqs.aspx [2] http://www.microway.com.au/microsoft/visual-studio-2013-compare-editions.php http://www.microway.com.au/microsoft/visual-studio-2013-comp...

joshschreuder 12y ago
I think it's more that CodeLens appears to be far less of a niche feature than the others exclusive to Ultimate, which has people up in arms a bit because it looks universally useful to all developers (but not useful enough on its own to justify the extra $10K or so if you're not using other Ultimate features). We have MSDN access here, but that only offers Premium, not Ultimate. So yeah, I run Premium day-to-day also, but I definitely feel like I would benefit from CodeLens in my dev workflow (especially with the upcoming Git integration in VS2013 Update 3).
- cpayne 12y ago
  CodeLens - Yes, I see, you make a fair point...