Visual Studio Community?

[MaximusX]

I have been using Visual Studio Express 2013 and today on microsoft's website and saw visual studio community what is this?

[Satlen]

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/onecode/archive/2014/11/12/differences-between-visual-studio-community-edition-and-express-editions.aspx

[GoodBytes]

I have been using Visual Studio Express 2013 and today on microsoft's website and saw visual studio community what is this?

Visual Studio Community replaces Express.

It is the Visual Studio Professional version but free, so it is a really awesome. Same set of features including extension support (but without MSDN and support, of course)

To be more specific. It is free for:

-> Individuals personal/commercial application - unlimited licenses.

-> Any open source project (even if you are a large company, as long as it is used exclusively used for open source dev) - unlimited licenses

-> Classroom, academic research, and any educational purposes. - unlimited licenses

-> For companies that has < 250 computers and/or < $1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue - You get 5 licenses free for commercial applications.

Basically, it is free for personal usage, or if you want to sale your own software or start a small company it is all free, or school, or working on an open source project in a company.

Visual Studio 2015 is coming real soon! (and yes Community version is there)

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/visual-studio-2015-downloads-vs.aspx