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The tiny installer is just a stub, which took around 2 hours to download and install every feature of the full product on our test PC (this had a basic 8Mbps broadband connection, and would have been much faster if we'd avoided some of the optional downloads). This does make for an absolutely huge product.

There's web tooling for ASP.NET, Node.js, and JavaScript, and Apache Cordova and Unity tools mean you can target iOS and Android, as well as Windows.īundled tools include Peek, Blend, Code Analysis and full C# refactoring, and if that's not enough then there's full access to Visual Studio's 5000+ extensions. Designers, editors, debuggers and profilers help to polish your work. You can code apps and applications in C++, C#, VB, F#, HTML5, Python, JavaScript and more. Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2013 is a very powerful development environment, essentially a revamped edition of Visual Studio Professional 2013 which is now available for (mostly) free.Īs you'll know if you ever looked at Visual Studio 2013, Community is a product with something for just about everyone.

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