
The end result for us took up 15GB of hard drive space, and added more than 40 elements to the installed applications list on our test PC.Ĭommunity does put an enormous amount of power in your hands, though, and the licensing terms are generous, too. 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. Please let me know if you need anymore information.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. If there is any possible way of creating this it would be a huge help! Start-Process -Wait -FilePath "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vs_installer.exe" -ArgumentList "update -passive -norestart -installpath ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise""" Update documentation for Microsoft Visual Studio 2017: Įnterprise 2017 Example Script (Current method):

Update documentation for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019: These downloads can be accessed with a Dev Essentials account which is free. You either have to ask the end user to update providing they have local admin rights or work around with PowerShell scripts which can cause corrupt VS installations is devenv.exe isn't closed properly.

The current way of having to patch this product is horrid.
