Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2017 (visualstudio.com)

Reader Anon E. Muss writes: Microsoft on Tuesday released Visual Studio 2017. The latest version of the venerable Integrated Development Environment supports a variety of languages (C/C++, C#, VB.net, F#, Javascript/Typescript, Python, etc.) and targets classic "Win32" desktop, Universal Windows Platform (UWP, also known as "Metro"), .NET, ASP, node.js, etc.). A "Community Edition" is available at no cost for individual developers and those working on open source software. "Professional" and "Enterprise" editions are available for corporate developers, at prices sure to shock whoever has to sign the check.

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Re:64-bit

[scb147]

Microsoft,

It's 2017 and Visual Studio is still 32-bit.

Sincerely,
Developers

My MSDN account shows both 32-bit and 64-bit are available for Professional.

$500 is Shocking???

[turp182]

The Professional version is $500 (license, not subscription):
https://www.visualstudio.com/v...

That seems very reasonable.

Enterprise is quite a bit more ($6K for new, $2.6K to renew), but it is part of the MSDN Enterprise (previously Ultimate I believe, that's what my license is called at this time), you get access to almost everything MS has ever made (want Windows 3.1 or DOS 6, it's there, want enterprise SQL Server, it's there).

Here's the link to the prices:
https://www.visualstudio.com/v...

Re:$500 is Shocking???

[OzPeter]

Does this mean I can get Visual Studio 2016 for a cheaper price now since it is considered old and obsolete?
what about VS 2015 or older? Cheaper is better.

There is no VS2016. As for VS2015 I doubt you can even buy it now unless you get through an MSDN subscription.

But anyway for 100% of non-corporate usage the community editions handle everything you can throw at them and are free. The Pro only starts to make sense when you want to tie into a Team Foundation Server in a corporate environment.

Re:we know what vs is - did anything change?

[Anonymous Coward]

VS2017 Release Notes

Re:64-bit

[Ambassador Kosh]

The IDE is 32bit. The compile, debug, profile etc chain are 32bit and 64bit.

There is probably no reason for the IDE to be 64bit since it does not come even close to use enough memory to justify that. I have opened a few visual studio projects in 2017 and most of them don't use more than 200 MB. Resource usage so far is about half that of VS 2015.

How do I turn the telemetry off this time?

[Opportunist]

In the last VS I had to add a compiler option to stop you from sneaking your snooping crap into my code, what is it going to be this time?

Yours,

An Ex-VS user.

Re:64-bit

[PhrostyMcByte]

It's 2017 and Visual Studio is still 32-bit.

Unless you have specific use cases 64-bit doesn't always mean better. Most apps don't need the extra address space, and jumping to 64-bit means doubling your pointer sizes, which increases memory usage, reduces locality, and puts a larger burden on cache.

In VS's case they did the math and 32-bit was better. They've said this for years now. It's not a bad thing.

FYI: No ISO download

[rastos1]

But you should be able to create an offline installer

Re:Coumminty edition is FREE! Not crippled

[Billly Gates]

The community edition is not the crippled express editions. You can even make professional software with it too. THe only difference is the MSDN subscription and corporate Team Foundation features for teams and groups.

THe Community Edition even comes with Git and Git tools to use for things like Github.

So why is everyone whining? Things are not free to make and like Redhat there is CentOS for those who do not need enterprise support but is there for those that do.