Today Microsoft announced at their Connect(); event coverage on Channel 9 that a new free edition of Visual Studio called Visual Studio Community 2013 is being made available. It combines everything in all of the Express editions and adds extensibility support.
“Great apps require great tools, and today we are opening up access to Visual Studio to an even broader set of developers.
Visual Studio Community 2013 is a new free, fully-featured edition of Visual Studio that lets developers target any platform, from desktop and mobile to web and cloud. Visual Studio Community 2013 also supports full Visual Studio extensibility, offering access to the ecosystem of over 5000 extensions.
In addition to broad platform support in a unified Visual Studio experience, Visual Studio Community 2013 also includes dozens of great Visual Studio tools, including Peek, Blend, Code Analysis, Graphical Debugging and full C# refactoring.
Support for Visual Studio extensibility means developers gain access to tools for a wide variety of technologies and platforms supported by the rich Visual Studio extensibility ecosystem, including the Visual Studio Gallery. For example, Visual Studio Community users have access to the excellent Visual Studio Tools for Unity and the open source Node.js Tools for Visual Studio and Web Essentials for Visual Studio.
Opening up access to Visual Studio extensibility to a wider audience also creates great new opportunities for extension authors to build new tools and experiences on top of the Visual Studio platform. For both open source and commercial extension authors, Visual Studio offers a great developer tools platform.
And most importantly, Visual Studio Community 2013 is free for any non-enterprise application development.” – somasegar
Download Visual Studio Community 2013
http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs
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