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Visual Studio Community - Where does it come up short?

I'm transitioning my development over the next two years. I'm moving aggressively toward Ember.js, Sublime Text, OS X... and leaving Microsoft behind. That being said, I'll continue to encounter a project or two per year that require a little .NET development. This year, for example:

I'm working on rejiggering the following Ember.js MVC API built in ASP.NET: http://www.asp.net/single-page-application/overview/templates/emberjs-template.

I'm also reworking a console app that imports "ugly" CSV files, massages the data a lot, and pushes the data into MSSQL.

Here's my question: Can I pull these projects off with Visual Studio Community? I'd love to quit resubscribing to my Microsoft Action Pack with VS Pro and simply use VS Community, but I suspect Microsoft has deliberately hobbled VS Community in a manner that will make it not viable for my projects.

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käµfm³d - This question illustrates how long it's been since I really leaned into .NET, but hey, there's no such thing as a stupid question, right? You state, The biggest boon IMO was the inclusion of extension support. Do the following links reference the extensions to which you refer?

https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd885119.aspx

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More or less, although, your second link is about creating extensions rather than using them.

As a personal example, when I would use Visual Studio at work, since the office provided me with Professional+ editions, I could install things like Power Tools. The functionality that that extension provides made various coding tasks much easier/faster. But when I would code at home, I only had the Express edition, and so I could not install Power Tools. Then CE came out. I can now enjoy the same features that I became accustomed to at work.

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Wow, I just wrapped up a console app and VS Community got the job done w/o a hitch.

käµfm³d,

Thanks for the heads up about the licensing requirements for VS Community. Also thank you for the insight on Extensions. Much appreciated.

J

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NP. Glad to help = )