[Sponsored] Visual Studio Community Edition

Fengol

Download Visual Studio Community for a free, full-featured IDE with powerful coding productivity features, cross-platform mobile development tools for Windows, iOS and Android, and access to thousands of extensions. This edition of Visual Studio is available at no cost for non-enterprise application development.

http://aka.ms/vs4me

Pease note that it cannot be run side by side with any other version.

If you would be keen to build an app in December for publication to both the Windows and phone stores, Microsoft SA would like to offer you a pair of movie tickets to do so. Contact Suliman Noor Mahomed (suliman at microsoft.com) for more information.

dislekcia

I'm not sure I like the implications of a [sponsored] semi-category on the forum. It feels like advertising, but in an icky way.

Surely the info about the movie tickets (??) could have been added to the existing thread about the Visual Studio Community Edition being available?

Fengol

@dislekcia, I didn't know there was a thread already for the VS Community Edition? I thought about not using the tag but I wanted people to be clear that the offer wasn't my doing but from a trusted sponsor. I understand the concern but I also feel sponsors (who actually sponsor, like Microsoft and City Varsity) can share some bits with the community.

We need to set some guidance for this; and I suggest if it's a sponsor from a public list of sponsors available on the forums and it has the tag [Sponsored] so people who they're about to read some biased information, then it should be allowed without being abused. What do you think?

dislekcia

I think that a [Sponsored] tag on posts made by users on the forum that are otherwise impartial in their regular postings is a confusing thing.

I think that an account registered to Microsoft posting here and making an offer is totally fine, but doesn't require the [sponsored] tag either.

Basically, you (a committee member) posting something sponsored makes it seem like the community is up for grabs. It isn't, nor is it a place where advertisement is tolerated (otherwise we'd have ads all over between the posts). It's awesome that Microsoft and City Varsity support MGSA and provide resources for the meetups, but at no point were those resources offered on condition that they advertise on the community forum (acting as though that's suddenly on the board is one of the things that made rAge so weird) - anyone, including event sponsors, should be welcome to post here as who they are without obtaining special privileges through other means.

Also, yes, there's another thread about the VS Community Edition release.

mattbenic

Just out of interest, does [sponsored] mean they somehow paid/rewarded you or MGSA for that post?

wogan

Question: Does that edition of VS properly integrate with Unity? By which I mean, can I install this bad boy?

mattbenic

wogan said:

Question: Does that edition of VS properly integrate with Unity? By which I mean, can I install this bad boy?

Yes you can. It has full support for extensions.