The power of the cloud, state-of-the-art tools, and agile development services provide you with the most comprehensive free developer offering ever.
A free, fully-featured, and extensible IDE for creating modern applications for Windows, Android, and iOS, as well as Web applications and cloud services.
It's intended for developing open source software, however small organisations can develop closed source applications; legal terms here: https://www.visualstudio.com/support/legal/mt171547
Or just use it to teach yourself programming.
13 comments
MPLP
26 May 16#1
Hot because this is a great deal! Cold because it's always been free (as was Visual Studio Express). Have some heat. :smiley:
Passivicity
26 May 162#2
Thank you! Where this improves over Express I think is the (Xamarin) support for developing for iOS and Android in addition to the usual Windows platforms. It also includes an Android emulator. Word of caution though: it's a BEAST.... Installing everything took up about 48Gb and took over an hour and a half!
TehJumpingJawa
26 May 161#3
Eclipse has always been free :confused:
captainjon to TehJumpingJawa
28 May 161#9
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Eclipse is not even in the same league
BlackTiger
26 May 16#4
I thought you need a MAC to write iPhone apps?
aishaukhan
27 May 16#5
Mine keep canceling in between installation, some error!! Anyone with the same issue?
Passivicity
27 May 16#6
With the native tools from Apple (like XCode) - yes they do only run on Mac but this comes with Xamarin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xamarin#Xamarin.Mac which allegedly allows you to build apps on Windows that will run on iOS.
I had no issue with installing, other than the time taken. Check available disk space as depending on the components you select, they can require a shedload of disk space.
MisterTIBS
28 May 16#7
Cheers.
For whoever it might interest to have an offline installer version of this, it seems to be covered on this page (however, note the Android bit saying that won't be included): https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt706497.aspx
Around 5gb so far for the offline version, with a progress bar which would indicate around 60% done.
MisterTIBS
28 May 16#8
I too thought that but maybe you only need the Mac (or VM) if you plan on testing the app prior to upload or whatever?
kyaqb
29 May 16#10
The Express versions had limited features. This Community version is equivalent to the Pro version.
kyaqb
29 May 16#11
This is also free to use for commercial development teams of up to 5 members.
Oliver_cav
29 May 16#12
You still do need a Mac, you can build iOS apps using xamarin but would still need a Mac to compile it
CFC2011
30 May 16#13
I use this edition, it has everything you need to build personal projects.
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The power of the cloud, state-of-the-art tools, and agile development services provide you with the most comprehensive free developer offering ever.
A free, fully-featured, and extensible IDE for creating modern applications for Windows, Android, and iOS, as well as Web applications and cloud services.
It's intended for developing open source software, however small organisations can develop closed source applications; legal terms here: https://www.visualstudio.com/support/legal/mt171547
Or just use it to teach yourself programming.
13 comments
Eclipse is not even in the same league
I had no issue with installing, other than the time taken. Check available disk space as depending on the components you select, they can require a shedload of disk space.
For whoever it might interest to have an offline installer version of this, it seems to be covered on this page (however, note the Android bit saying that won't be included): https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt706497.aspx
Around 5gb so far for the offline version, with a progress bar which would indicate around 60% done.