On Friday, February 24, 2017 at 1:54:39 AM UTC, Deborah Swanson wrote: > Michael Torrie wrote, on February 23, 2017 7:43 AM > > > > On 2017-02-22 09:49 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote: > > > Didn't even look. Visual Studio has always been pricey, and it never > > > > occurred to me that they might have a free or cheap version now. > > > > You can get the full edition of Visual Studio, called Visual Studio > > Community Edition for free. They still offer Visual Studio Express, > but > > I think they recommend the full community edition to most people now. > > The biggest downside to the VS Community Edition is that it has to > phone > > home and log in to MS's developer web site from time to time to stay > > active. Sigh. MS almost gets it, but not quite. > > Another free version of Visual Studio, wonders never cease! > > As for it phoning home, I won't use it for long, and then I might not > ever use it again. Wonder what value they think this has, other than > giving them a nosecount of how many active copies there are at any given > time.
As an alternative to Visual Studio Community Edition, which takes forever and a day to download and install, you might like to give Visual Studio Code a try https://code.visualstudio.com/ Kindest regards. Mark Lawrence. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
