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From: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingNET2015NETAsOpenSourceNETOnMacAndLinuxAndVisualStudioCommunity.aspx http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingNET20

by Scuds 12y ago

From: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingNET2015NETAsOpenSourceNETOnMacAndLinuxAndVisualStudioCommunity.aspx http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingNET2015NETAsOpenSour... "There is a new FREE SKU for Visual Studio for open source developers and students called Visual Studio Community. It supports extensions and lots more all in one download. This is not Express. This is basically Pro."

virmundi 12y ago
See... I'm neither. I'm a single developer working on mostly closed source projects. As a result, I don't benefit too much from that. Also, I have a Mac and an Ubuntu laptop. So again, not much love from MS. Now I admit this is the early days of their open source push. That's fine. But until they make VS Pro free, across the board, I doubt non-MS shops will really pickup the platform. There isn't much of a win without VS. Heck, most MS devs are so VS centric that you'll probably get nothing but confused looks if you did use an alternative IDE and said that during an interview.
- numo16 12y ago
  > See... I'm neither. I'm a single developer working on mostly closed source projects. From the actual site for VS Community [0]: > 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. Sounds to me like you do fit in that category for this edition of VS. That being said, .NET development definitely does still seem very VS centric, but things seem to be changing. The experience of using sublime text + omnisharp[1] doesn't look too bad. [0]: http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-community-vs http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-com... [1]: http://www.omnisharp.net/ http://www.omnisharp.net/
- shanselman 12y ago
  If you are less than 5 developers ;) then you're good. Check the details!
- Rapzid 12y ago
  It depends on what you're using it for.. I use Xamarin Studio(monodevelop) to work on a bunch of stuff. It works great. It falls down a bit trying to do ASP.NET stuff, but with the new open source push, ASP.NET vNext etc, this should get much better.

by Scuds 12y ago

virmundi 12y ago

See... I'm neither. I'm a single developer working on mostly closed source projects. As a result, I don't benefit too much from that. Also, I have a Mac and an Ubuntu laptop. So again, not much love from MS. Now I admit this is the early days of their open source push. That's fine. But until they make VS Pro free, across the board, I doubt non-MS shops will really pickup the platform. There isn't much of a win without VS. Heck, most MS devs are so VS centric that you'll probably get nothing but confused looks if you did use an alternative IDE and said that during an interview.

numo16 12y ago
> See... I'm neither. I'm a single developer working on mostly closed source projects. From the actual site for VS Community [0]: > 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. Sounds to me like you do fit in that category for this edition of VS. That being said, .NET development definitely does still seem very VS centric, but things seem to be changing. The experience of using sublime text + omnisharp[1] doesn't look too bad. [0]: http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-community-vs http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-com... [1]: http://www.omnisharp.net/ http://www.omnisharp.net/
shanselman 12y ago
If you are less than 5 developers ;) then you're good. Check the details!
Rapzid 12y ago
It depends on what you're using it for.. I use Xamarin Studio(monodevelop) to work on a bunch of stuff. It works great. It falls down a bit trying to do ASP.NET stuff, but with the new open source push, ASP.NET vNext etc, this should get much better.