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Re:Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio by slavik81 on Sunday May 06, 2018 @01:49AM (#17005400)
Was there something missing that was important for .Net developers? For C++, there was practically no difference aside from the aforementioned plugin support.

It's long been the case that businesses buy the pro version and hobbyists use the free one. Now it's because of license restrictions rather than because of missing features, but the end result is basically the same.

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Re:Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio by pjmlp on Sunday May 06, 2018 @03:53AM (#17005629)
Yes, for starters you would need to install separately one express version per language and workflow.

Meaning something like Express C++, Express C# Desktop, Express C# Web development.

Then many plugins for SQL, GUI design, static code analysis, debugging were not available.

Even C++ had language features not enabled on Express versions, and if I recall correctly it did only 32bit code generation.

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