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I run a global software firm that has done. NET apps today that have been in production for 14 years. But in the modern world it is so costly to leverage (99% of the time) that I'm surprised anyone even considers it, let alone chooses it.Īnd I don't say this lightly.

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Still deal with it on old code bases, sure. It's almost never that I'd expect someone to move TO it today. NET is really a legacy platform designed around MS-lock in needs around 2000. So you get hit up front in longer dev time and higher dev costs and hit later in that the software is harder to sell or harder to deploy. NET is incredibly limiting in development and deployment options making the results of that slower code generally much more limiting. NET was modeled after - which would explain your experiences.). It's a slow platform to work on, developers tend to write code much slower than with other platforms (Java is also slow, I see that you compared against the language. NET languages is generally very limiting and slow in all directions. NET is more recent, I like VSE/VSP/VSCE because of the neat IDE and the build and debug facilities provided, also yes, since this is a startup, I am trying to keep my expenses on the lower side!.Right, and writing code is. I should explain my background, I used to work on Linux and Netbeans and stuff, my foray into. NET is more recent, I like VSE/VSP/VSCE because of the neat IDE and the build and debug facilities provided, also yes, since this is a startup, I am trying to keep my expenses on the lower side!. Would beg to disagree here, I use the IDE to write code and compile it and that's it, I don't use VSS or it's replacement for version control, I use SVN with Tortoise and it works pretty well. Chances are, 99% of the time, you should be running away from it. Don't just jump into VS because you can get a free version. It's free because it essentially is only useful for learning and making products that lock you into really high cost charges down the road.ĭevelopment studios are free for every major platform. It's also basically worthless :) I'd stop and ask yourself why you want to use it, because there is nearly no case where your business isn't the big loser with VisualStudio. And VS isn't that fast for development, it's a costly platform to work with in terms of developer productivity.Īre there times that you want to use it? Sure. If you are hosting it, it massively grows your hosting costs. If you are selling it it devalues the value of your software. If you are using it internally, it makes your costs and risks higher. NET centric then? If you are making software, you don't want that kind of lock in.

Wouldn't it be better to use something that isn't.

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I'm hardly a MS license expert, but I think if you fall into that enterprise area with less than $1MM revenue and under 250 PCs/Users, then you can use Community Edition to create your applications.

Companies over $1 million in annual revenue or more than 250 PCs/Users will need a paid version of Visual Studio.

If your company is less than 250 PCs or Users, or less than $1 million in annual revenue, then up to 5 developers can use the Community edition to develop and test.

Companies can use the community edition for Open Source Initiative, educational, or VS Extensions.

Individuals can use the Community edition to develop and test just about any application ('to sell or for any other purpose').

I looked here at the 2017 Opens a new window license and the way I understand this is:

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I have 7 guys ( including me ) who basically use the IDE to make console applications and web applications, let's take a hypothetical case where 4 employees installed Visual Studio Express ( I just finished purchasing Visual Studio Professional for each one of them so this is no longer a problem for me) and the remaining 3 have Visual Studio Professional licenses, am I committing an kind of licensing infraction by using the express edition, I ask this, because of that's what one of the Microsoft Partner here said, they said, 'You may not use Visual Studio Express for any kind of development activity that gets you paid'.

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The license is basically saying you cannot install it on something like terminal server or RDS and have multiple developers use the same machine and the same Visual Studio installation. And if you have multiple developers, each one can download and install their own copy. Does this mean a company with more than one user can't install it ?.ĭo you have more than 1 developer? The developer is the user of the Visual Studio software, not the rest of your employees.