What are the differences between the available versions of Visual Studio 2015?

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Last year was announced 3 versions of Visual Studio 2015 : Community, Professional and Enterprise

Based on the tools available in each version:

  • What do I lose between using one and another in part productivity and tools available?
  • (optional) is recommended for what types of projects, if possible examples ?! (eg small projects such as a website application, loss of mobile emulation tools, ...)
asked by anonymous 06.04.2016 / 23:12

2 answers

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Professional

The Visual Studio Community itself has nothing less than Professional. There may be some benefits beyond the IDE that Microsoft only gives in the paid version. These include Team Services in your Team Foundation Server. Also available various software (SQL Server, Exchange, etc.) for use in development environment, as well as credits in various services. In the link above you can see the usage restrictions of this version.

Enterprise

The Enterprise edition has a number of extra features primarily linked to ALM , testing and debugging . There is a official comparative table . I emphasize:

  • IntelliTrace ( debug history)
  • .NET Memory Dump Analysis
  • Code Map Debugger Integration
  • Web Load & Performance Testing
  • IntelliTest
  • Microsoft Fakes (Unit Test Isolation)
  • Code Coverage
  • Coded UI Testing
  • Manual Testing
  • Exploratory Testing
  • Test Case Management
  • Fast-forward for Manual Testing
  • CodeLens
  • CodeClone
  • Architectural Layer Diagrams
  • Architecture Validation
  • UML Diagrams
  • Virtual environment setup & teardown
  • Provision environment from template
  • Checkpoint environment
  • Web-based Test Case Management
  • Release Management
  • Test Manager
  • Extra features for Xamarin (Android and iOS), including Remote Simulator
  • "Real-time" drive tests
  • Extra third-party SQL tools

That may interest you .

    
06.04.2016 / 23:52
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It goes according to what you want to use even roughly.

The Community is mainly with the academic focus (basic tools for development), however, it is not as flexible as the Professional about tools. Enterprise already exists unit testing as a tool for example (but you can use other programs that do TestUnit). They are in themselves tools that differ from one another. I use Visual Studio Professional at work but at home I have the Community and particularly the Professional can give you much more benefit compared to the Community.

More questions follow the Link of the MS website talking about the products asked.

    
06.04.2016 / 23:27