Legal way to get Microsoft Virtual Studio for free?...

[dave4shmups]

The reason why I ask this question is that I'd love to download Microsoft Visual Studio to practice coding in languages like Visual Basic.

[BleakMaker]

Just now, dave4shmups said:

The reason why I ask this question is that I'd love to download Microsoft Visual Studio to practice coding in languages like Visual Basic.

If you're a student you can always try emailing them work's most of the time for me with most product's.

[fizzlesticks]

Visual Studio Community edition is already free.

https://www.visualstudio.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=Community&rel=15

 

edit: their download servers suck so you might have to reload the page a few times.

[2FA]

The community version is free. https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/

[trag1c]

Visual studio has had a free edition for nearly a decade now. Its called Visual Studio Express, more recently they released Community Edition which is fully featured and free for up to 5 users in a commercial company and free for non commercial work.

[straight_stewie]

10 hours ago, dave4shmups said:

The reason why I ask this question is that I'd love to download Microsoft Visual Studio to practice coding in languages like Visual Basic.

Ummm, the full Visual Studio version is free...

https://www.visualstudio.com/

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

If your school has a subscription to Microsoft Imagine, you will have access to a variety of Microsoft software depending on your school including Microsoft Windows, Visual Studio Ultimate, SQL Server, and much more.

 

https://imagine.microsoft.com/en-us

[Lengran]

    1. Microsoft Imagine. If your school has a Microsoft Imagine subscription, you can get Visual Studio Enterprise edition here for free.

 

    2. Microsoft Visual Studio Community edition on its official website. Community edition is free for personal use and you can easily download it on Visual Studio's official website.

 

    Hopes that can help you.

[amardilo]

As people have already said the Community Edition is free but if you are learning Visual Studio Code is pretty good.

[dave4shmups]

I'm not a student; can I still get the Community Edition for free?

[Mira Yurizaki]

11 minutes ago, dave4shmups said:

I'm not a student; can I still get the Community Edition for free?

That question has been answered plenty of times in this thread already

[straight_stewie]

6 hours ago, dave4shmups said:

I'm not a student; can I still get the Community Edition for free?

At this point, the only other advice or knowledge I can give you is to google it.

[madknight3]

13 hours ago, dave4shmups said:

I'm not a student; can I still get the Community Edition for free?

Most likely. The product page lists the usage requirements at the bottom. Here it is quoted for you

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For individuals

Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps.

 

For organizations

An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.

For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise organizations, up to five users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or >$1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.

For more information, see the Visual Studio Community license terms.

 

[dave4shmups]

On 3/13/2017 at 0:28 PM, M.Yurizaki said:

That question has been answered plenty of times in this thread already

Yeah, I saw the earlier posts; sorry I didn't read them sooner.

[kasugatei]

On 3/12/2017 at 3:57 AM, ThePoolQueen said:

Having been around a group of coders I always hear them recommend Visual Studio Code.
Which is not only free but also a lot more lightweight if all you're doing is coding.

https://code.visualstudio.com/

 

Visual Studio Code is just a fancy text editor (not saying that it is bad thou). It does not come any compilers. It is great for web coding but not so much for languages like C, C++, C#, VB etc.

[Karim66y]

Hey all,You have 2 ways To get it the first one is to use visual studio community edition which is free (if you  satisfy the conditions) or you can use visual studio for  os x and  linux preview edition which i'm currently using to develope ASP apps for my university projects

Edited March 15, 2017 by Karim66y