Difference between Visual Studio Code and Community (2015)

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_{Saturday, August 8, 2015 11:45 PM | 1 vote}

Hi All, I'm bit confused about 2015 vs versions

Which are the main differences between VS Community and VS Code ? (both refering to 2015 versions)

Thanks in advance!

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_{Sunday, August 9, 2015 12:10 AM ✅Answered | 3 votes}

Thanks Rachit for your response about VS 2015 pro and Code versions, but which is the role of VS Community version in this scenario?

The difference I explained is between Visual Studio 2015 (As a whole) and Visual Studio Core 2015.

Further Visual Studio have multiple editions like Visual Studio Community, Proffessional, enterprise etc

Difference between them are here-> Compare Visual Studio 2015 Offerings

Like I said, the difference is that .NET has been split into two:

1. .NET Core (Mac/Linux/Windows)
2. .NET Framework (Windows only)

All native user interface technologies (Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Forms, etc) are part of the framework, not the core.

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_{Saturday, August 8, 2015 11:58 PM | 11 votes}

The list of differences is huge.

Visual Studio Code is a stripped down version of Visual Studio 2015, with emphasis in just writing the code instead of dealing with debugging, compiling, testing, refactoring, and all the other things that make Visual Studio great.

The people using Visual Studio Code will probably be those on a Mac who will just deal with client-side technologies (HTML/JS/CSS) and do not want to install Windows in order to do that.

People using Windows and developing C#, F# or VB will continue to use Visual Studio 2015.

Also the difference is that .NET has been split into two:

1. .NET Core (Mac/Linux/Windows)
2. .NET Framework (Windows only)

All native user interface technologies (Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Forms, etc) are part of the framework, not the core.

Please mark as answer or vote as helpful if my reply does

_{Sunday, August 9, 2015 12:01 AM}

Thanks Rachit for your response about VS 2015 pro and Code versions, but which is the role of VS Community version in this scenario?

_{Sunday, August 9, 2015 12:18 AM}

Thanks a lot Rachit ! its very clear the answer! ;)

_{Wednesday, January 18, 2017 10:55 AM}

Actually it seems you mistook VS code for "VS core"; on the link there is no VS code being compared to the VS