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Visual Studio Community 2013
November 12, 2014

Visual Studio Community 2013 is a new edition that enables you to unleash the
full power of Visual Studio to develop cross-platform solutions. Create apps in one
unified IDE. Get Visual Studio extensions that incorporate new languages, features,
and development tools into this IDE. (These extensions are available from the
Visual Studio Gallery.) Find out more details about Visual Studio Community 2013 here.

What's in Visual Studio Community 2013

• Professional-grade editing, code analysis, and debugging support
• Support for open-source workflows (Git)
• Compilers for managed languages, C++ and more
• Cross-platform mobile development for your preferred device and platform, including
  the web, Android, iOS, and Windows Phone with the free Visual Studio Tools for
  Apache Cordova extension
• Take advantage of cloud services with simplified Azure SDK integration, and
  incorporate modern app analytics and telemetry with Application Insights
• Access to all the Visual Studio 2013 extensions on the Visual Studio Gallery
• Visual Studio Community 2013 includes Update 4, which is a cumulative update
  of all previous Visual Studio 2013 updates

Q: What is Visual Studio Community 2013?

A: Visual Studio Community 2013 is a free full-featured IDE for developers building apps
across devices, desktops, and the cloud. The community edition includes all the capabilities
needed for a student, open source contributor, or small team to create compelling applications –
powerful productivity features, cross-platform mobile tools for Windows, iOS, and Android,
as well as access to extensions.


Q: Does this mean Visual Studio Express editions go away?

A: Existing versions of Visual Studio Express (e.g. 2010, 2013) will remain, but we’re not
currently planning to release an Express edition in the 2015 wave. The community edition
will become our first and best free offering for developers creating non-enterprise apps.


Q: Isn’t Visual Studio Community really just Visual Studio Professional?

A: While the two editions share the same features today, the licensing terms determine
who can use this product. We continue to invest in our paid offerings including MSDN
subscription benefits and services, which many Visual Studio Professional users can
take advantage of today.


Q: How will Microsoft monetize this move?

A: This move is about providing developers with tools that empower them to build
modern, competitive apps in today’s marketplace – whether those apps are free, paid,
academic, or open source.


Q: What does this mean for MSDN subscribers of Visual Studio Professional?

A: Visual Studio Professional with MSDN subscribers will continue to receive all the
benefits of their MSDN subscription, including software, training, and credits for Azure cloud
services, Visual Studio Online as well as the new e-Learning benefits we announced today.


Q: How will you regulate people who use this SKU? What are the guidelines?
How do you define “non-enterprise app”?

A: Here’s a quick summary of how to think about usage (please refer to the EULA within
the product for specific terms, and to the Visual Studio Licensing whitepaper for more guidance):

Here’s how individual developers can use Visual Studio Community:

• Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community, to create their own free or paid apps.
  
  Here’s how Visual Studio Community can be used in 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 5 users can use
  Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or >
  $1M in annual revenue) no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research
  and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.

Q: What are the specific features of the Visual Studio Community 2013?

A: Visual Studio Community 2013 shares the same features as Visual Studio Professional 2013
today and licensing terms determine who can use this product. Based on the target audience
for this product, SharePoint, Office, LightSwitch and Cloud Business Applications are not
included in the installation.


Q: Will current Visual Studio extensions work for Visual Studio Community 2013?

A: Yes, any extension that’s compatible with Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 should work with
Visual Studio Community 2013.


Q: Can you install Visual Studio Community 2013 and Visual Studio 2013 Pro+ on the same machine?

A: No, you cannot install Visual Studio Community if you have Visual Studio Professional 2013
or above installed on that machine. If you’ve installed Visual Studio Community first, and then
install a higher level edition, Visual Studio Community will be upgraded to (replaced by) that edition.


Q: Can you install Visual Studio Community 2013 and Visual Studio Express editions on the same machine?

A: Yes.

Потому что язык программирования Mercury разработан под эту версию.