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?
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
So from this comparison it looks like for an individual the only real difference is CodeLens.
Considering I'm in a team of 4 devs I think I qualify to use community edition.
@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.
From Visual Studio site: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.
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.
Ah, 1 mil. Oops.