Visual Studio - Free Community IDE for #Windows, #Android and #iOS

Along with Visual Studio 2015 Preview and .NET 4.6, Microsoft released another version of Visual Studio on 12th November 2014. They named it as “Visual Studio Community 2013” which comes as Free for individual developers, students, open source contributors and small teams.

This IED is now available not only for Windows developers but for Android and iOS devs too. If you are one of them, continue reading to know more about the new edition of the IDE and to grab the link.

Visual Studio Community 2013 is a free, powerful, versatile, extensible and fully featured IDE for individual developers, students, open source contributors and small teams. If you are a designer, developer, debugger or profiler, all the required tools are packed up in a single environment. You can code in C#, VB, F#, HTML5, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Node.js, C++ and in Python too. You can now use tools for Apache Cordova and Unity to reach even more platforms like iOS and Android along with Windows.

If you are an individual developer, you can use Visual Studio Community to create your own free or paid apps without buying the product. If you want to use it in an organization, an unlimited number of users within that organization can use Visual Studio Community in a classroom learning environment, for academic research or for contributing to open source projects. In non-enterprise organizations, up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (with >250 PCs or > $1MM in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.

System Requirements:

Additional Requirements:

• This version of Visual Studio works best with  Internet Explorer 10 or higher. If Internet Explorer 10 is not installed on your computer,  some features might not work as expected.
• KB2883200 (available through Windows Update) is required
• For Windows Phone development:
• Windows Phone 8.0 development requires Windows 8.1 (x64) or higher
• Windows Phone 8.1 development requires Windows 8.1 (x86) or higher
• For the Windows Phone emulators, Windows 8.1 (x64) Professional edition or higher, and a processor that supports Client Hyper-V and Second Level Address Translation (SLAT)
• If your computer meets the operating system requirements but does not meet the hardware requirements for the Windows Phone Emulators, the Windows Phone development tools will install and run. However, the Windows Phone 8.0 and 8.1 Emulators will not function and you must use a device to deploy or test Windows Phone apps.