“Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps.Internally it is Visual Studio Professional 2013 with Update 4 (that normally costs $499) excluding SharePoint, Office, LightSwitch and Cloud Business Applications from the installer, but now is free for non-enterprise organizations. If you find something you need which is available only in Professional (which I doubt), stump up the extra money then.Yesterday Microsoft released a new Visual Studio 2013 edition – Visual Studio Community 2013: Larger shops developing more complex apps may shell out for Professional or Enterprise.ĭownload the free Community VS. I have also worked at small IT shops which ran Community, because they seldom shared projects. Because if I am working at home, I’m not collaborating. Mostly the differences are only relevant if you are working in a large team – collaboration tools, automated unit tests, and the like.įor my own home PCs, I run Community edition. The differences get less and less with each release. The Professional edition (which is not free) has fewer license restrictions. It can also be used by anyone for open source development, educational purposes, and demonstration purposes. The Community edition (which is a free download) can be used by individual developers and small teams (5 people or less, as long as the company revenue is under a certain amount) for commercial development. According to my contacts at Microsoft, there is no operational difference between the two editions.
In general, the only difference between the Community and Professional editions of Visual Studio is one of licensing.
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