

Furthermore, some items during cross-platform development won't be used in Community subscriptions like embedded assemblies, Xamarin inspectors, and even profilers. It allows no live dependency and architecture validation, architectural layer diagrams, and more importantly, code clone.įor Testing tools, on the other hand, it only enables Unit Testing while for its Advanced Debugging and Diagnostics abilities, it only includes code metrics, graphics debugging, static code analysis, as well as a performance and diagnostics hub.

Its IDE capability isn't as solid as the paid ones as well. For instance, a Community license can't be utilized in projects that involve a business or enterprise. Of course, naturally, as compared to the two versions that require to be purchased-Professional and Enterprise-Community is somehow limited in features and power. As stated, Microsoft Visual Studio does provide a cost-free platform through Visual Studio Community.
