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Free Community version, Professional version, and Enterprise edition. The Community edition is the free version of the software bundle and is least featured. But anyway, it gets your work done as a ...

Visual Studio 2022's Community Edition, meanwhile, is free for individual developers and small teams. It also requires a Microsoft account and periodic signing in to keep it active. Its listed ...

On July 20, Microsoft declared Visual Studio 2015 officially done and available for download. The latest version of Microsoft's tool suite, as well as .Net 4.6, have been released to manufacturing and ...

In November 2014, Microsoft announced that it would release its Visual Studio Community Edition 2013 for free, in order to provide students and hobbyist programmers with the tools that are used every ...

There's no doubt about it: The top ask of Visual Studio users is to run the IDE on the Linux OS. The latest evidence of that claim is that "Visual Studio for Linux?" has received the most votes among ...

Visual Studio 2026 is no longer a preview or a promise, it is a shipping product that developers can install today. Microsoft is positioning this release as a generational reset for its flagship IDE, ...

If you've ever wanted to create your own mobile apps, websites, or desktop software, there's a good chance you've heard of Visual Studio. Whether you're a new dev or an experienced Visual Studio user, ...

Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide. For decades, when I got to work in ...

VSCodium avoids this entire issue. It is a community-driven option for those who don't want the proprietary distribution pipeline. VSCodium uses special build scripts to clone that exact open-source ...