Visual Studio for cheap?

[iamgigglz]

So my trial for VS 2017 Pro is about to end. I'm going to give Community Edition a go (what are the limitations?) but is there some way I can get Pro again for less than the R9000 price I'm finding?

 

[StewPit]

I might be wrong on this, but if you are Microsoft certified you get discount and shizz. Will log into my profile in a bit and check

 

[Thelangfordian]

So from this comparison it looks like for an individual the only real difference is CodeLens.

 

[iamgigglz]

I might be wrong on this, but if you are Microsoft certified you get discount and shizz. Will log into my profile in a bit and check

I'm not
Matric + experience is all the qualification I have...

So from this comparison it looks like for an individual the only real difference is CodeLens.

Ah nice - how did I not find that comparison before?

Considering I'm in a team of 4 devs I think I qualify to use community edition.

 

[Thelangfordian]

Considering I'm in a team of 4 devs I think I qualify to use community edition.

I know people in small 2-5 man teams who only use Community with no issues.

 

[StewPit]

For the Community edition you just need a Microsoft live account

 

[ian_stagib]

@iamgigglz give jetbrains Rider a try. We've switched to using it and there's a massive speed boost while using it. VS is not properly threaded and you will notice the difference.

 

[iamgigglz]

@iamgigglz give jetbrains Rider a try. We've switched to using it and there's a massive speed boost while using it. VS is not properly threaded and you will notice the difference.

I'll definitely take a look. Thanks for the suggestion.

Failing that, it looks like Community Edition is the way forward. Thanks all

 

[DiSSaRRaY]

I have Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise, Pro, and Community installed on different machines. The only thing that's annoying the lack of CodeLens in Community, I like to see the git info in the code.

Otherwise, the Community edition will do everything you'd need.

 

[Prosp3ctus]

I received a copy from my institution as they tend to have deals with microsoft.

They were fully enabled and looked like they would expire.

 

[z3llin]

Licencing wise Community is free for personal education use and for business use provided the business has a turnover of less than USD 100 000 a year.

 

[eyesuc]

Licencing wise Community is free for personal education use and for business use provided the business has a turnover of less than USD 100 000 a year.

From Visual Studio site:

Usage

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.

 

[z3llin]

From Visual Studio site:

Ah, 1 mil. Oops.

 

[chaos505]

VS Code is a electron app and its free VSCode
VS Community is also free VS Community