Microsoft has recently announced the release of Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition, which they claim is a full featured IDE.
Indeed, they mention features like add-on support (eg. ReSharper) that were major feature gaps in Express Edition.
They are less clear about what features Community Edition does not have. There is a comparison of VS editions, but it does not appear to include Community Edition.
What features does Community Edition not have, that at least one other Visual Studio 2013 edition does?
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As long as your company does not meet the enterprise definition, and no more than five people use Visual Studio. you can sell your software. This is the definition of enterprise: (a) More than 250 PCs or users.
Visual Studio Community. A fully-featured, extensible, free IDE for creating modern applications for Android, iOS, Windows, as well as web applications and cloud services.
Yes, VS Code is free for private or commercial use.
Microsoft notes in the Community Edition FAQ:
Visual Studio Community 2013 includes all the great functionality of Visual Studio Professional 2013, designed and optimized for individual developers, students, open source contributors, and small teams.
VS Professional is mentioned on the comparison. Compared to Ultimate, the following features are missing from Professional:
It's probably safe to assume this is a good description of features missing from Community Edition.
This is the updated feature comparison info page for Visual Studio 2015.
https://www.visualstudio.com/products/compare-visual-studio-2015-products-vs
It is not totally on par with the Professional Edition, but there is still huge amount of value there!
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