You can even do Python development, which runs on a wide range of operating systems from within Visual Studio. Visual Studio also supports a wide range of other target platforms, including mobile and the Web. While it is possible to use some other tool, Visual Studio really has no competition when the target is Windows. In the vast majority of organizations the applications targeted at the Windows platform are developed using Microsoft Visual Studio. Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2013 is a vast, full-featured product, and a must-have if you're a serious Windows developer who's also on a budget.Every enterprise IT organization develops and maintains some number of custom applications. Individuals and up to five people within non-enterprise organisations can use it to create free or paid applications, and everyone else can also use it for non-commercial purposes (teaching, open source products). The end result for us took up 15GB of hard drive space, and added more than 40 elements to the installed applications list on our test PC.Ĭommunity does put an enormous amount of power in your hands, though, and the licensing terms are generous, too. The tiny installer is just a stub, which took around 2 hours to download and install every feature of the full product on our test PC (this had a basic 8Mbps broadband connection, and would have been much faster if we'd avoided some of the optional downloads).
This does make for an absolutely huge product. There's web tooling for ASP.NET, Node.js, and JavaScript, and Apache Cordova and Unity tools mean you can target iOS and Android, as well as Windows.īundled tools include Peek, Blend, Code Analysis and full C# refactoring, and if that's not enough then there's full access to Visual Studio's 5000+ extensions.
Designers, editors, debuggers and profilers help to polish your work. You can code apps and applications in C++, C#, VB, F#, HTML5, Python, JavaScript and more. Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2013 is a very powerful development environment, essentially a revamped edition of Visual Studio Professional 2013 which is now available for (mostly) free.Īs you'll know if you ever looked at Visual Studio 2013, Community is a product with something for just about everyone.
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