{"id":2317,"date":"2014-11-24T19:45:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T07:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2014-11-24T19:45:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T07:45:47","slug":"visual-studio-pro-for-just-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/2317\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio Pro for just $0 !!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes]<\/span><\/span><p>Not exactly hot off the presses but some people apparently seem still to be unaware that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/533\">my suggestion for a <strong>Community Edition<\/strong> of Delphi<\/a> has been picked up (some years later, mind you).  Except that it isn&#8217;t Embarcadero that have picked it up, but Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>The Deal Just Got Better<\/h3>\n<p>Some might recall that a while back I mentioned a little-known means by which Visual Studio Pro could be had on a subscription basis for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/2262\">US$45 a month through a Visual Studio Online subscription as part of an Azure Pay As You Go plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To me this seemed a very good deal, allowing me to pay on a month-by-month basis (no up-front annual commitment) as needed.  In fact, with the free trial period, I actually only paid for one month of <strong>Visual Studio Pro<\/strong> before Microsoft went the extra step and made it entirely free, in the form of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/products\/visual-studio-community-vs\">Visual Studio Community Edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Not Just Another Express Edition<\/h3>\n<p>This is not another iteration of the relatively limited and platform specific <strong>Visual Studio Express<\/strong> line, but a bona-fide edition of <strong>Visual Studio Pro<\/strong> (Update #4 to be precise) with all that entails.<\/p>\n<p>There are terms in the EULA that restrict the use of the Community Edition.  In brief terms these amount to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you are an individual: <strong>NO restrictions<\/strong>.  Build and test apps to your hearts content, even paid-for apps.<\/li>\n<li>If you are a company: no restrictions <em>for Open Source projects or teaching\/learning use<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Commercial use is still allowed within organizations, but the conditions start to get more complex, with  only a maximum of 5 users permitted to use the Community Edition for development, testing and demonstration purposes.  It isn&#8217;t absolutely clear, but it appears that once you start shipping paid for apps you must upgrade from Community Edition.<\/p>\n<p>And note that even <em>this<\/em> concession does not apply if your organization is an &#8220;Enterprise&#8221; (> 250 PCs and\/or revenues over $1m).<\/p>\n<p>Further details of the EULA <a href=\"http:\/\/programmers.stackexchange.com\/questions\/262916\/need-help-understanding-visual-studio-community-edition-license\">can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Shall I Compare Thee&#8230;?<\/h3>\n<p>These are perfectly sensible and reasonable conditions for a &#8220;Community Edition&#8221;, or a &#8220;kick-start&#8221; license to enable a start-up to get coding and build their product imho.  Certainly it is far more practical and useful than similar license restrictions imposed by, for example, the <a href=\"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.embarcadero.com\/products\/delphi\/starter\">&#8220;Delphi Starter Edition<\/a> which by comparison looks like a parody of a supposedly community spirited license, or in fact just a bad joke (in fact, imho it always did, never mind in comparison with anything else).<\/p>\n<h3>Where To Get It<\/h3>\n<p>So, if Visual Studio Community Edition is suitable for you, then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/en-us\/downloads\/download-visual-studio-vs#DownloadFamilies_2\">you can download it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is certainly suitable for my <em>own<\/em> private projects with <strong>RemObjects Elements<\/strong>, enabling me to enjoy the full <strong>Visual Studio Pro<\/strong> environment <em>at no extra charge<\/em>, in which to use the <em>excellent<\/em> RemObjects languages.<\/p>\n<h3>Coming Soon&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>On that score, there is an upcoming addition to the RemObjects Elements family: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.remobjects.com\/elements\/silver\/\">Silver<\/a>, which you may know by its original Apple name, Swift).<\/p>\n<p>As if that weren&#8217;t enough, as well as Silver, there is a new release of <strong>RemObjects Elements<\/strong> just around the corner with some very cool new features that I hope to blog about soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes]<\/span><\/span>Not exactly hot off the presses but some people apparently seem still to be unaware that my suggestion for a Community Edition of Delphi has been picked up (some years later, mind you). Except that it isn&#8217;t Embarcadero that have picked it up, but Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[205,4,242,204,180,285],"tags":[286,273,184,278,277,266],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooper","category-delphi","category-echoes","category-nougat-oxygene","category-oxygene","category-silver-oxygene","tag-community-edition","tag-elements","tag-remobjects","tag-silver","tag-swift","tag-visual-studio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1TKYv-Bn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2324,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions\/2324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}