What are the limitations of Visual Web Developer Express 2010 when compared to the Professional and Ultimate and other non-free versions?
Visual Web Developer does not include:
Class designer
Macros
Command Window
XSLT debugger
XML Schema Explorer
Extensible Server Explorer (Database connectivity)
Solution folders
F# projects
There are more features that I don't remember.
Some of these features are available for free with Visual Studio Shell.
You cannot use add-ins. This is the killer for me. I need my ReSharper and ViEmu.
you cant creat table on a remote database
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Visual Studio 2012 Express, SQL Server 2012 Express, MVC 4, Code First
I'm looking for a good single user source control solution.
Vault vs Git(hub) vs SVN
From what I've read deployment should happen FROM the source control server, not separately from VS, right? Can Web Deploy be used FROM a source control server?
What would be the best, most cost effective, simplest, easiest Source Control solution? I used SVN a few years ago and it was pretty clunky.
Visual Studio integration is preferred.
There seem to be mixed opinions on how suitable Github would be (very little integration with VS 2012 Express I think?!).
Cloud option would be good to have. Is there a cloud solution that can automatically deploy direct to production server?
(I guess I'm talking about Constant Integration here - though I have zero experience with it, the principle seems like a good one).
Git can now integrate with Visual Studio:
Download here:
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/abafc7d6-dcaa-40f4-8a5e-d6724bdb980c
Getting Started guide here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2013/01/30/getting-started-with-git-in-visual-studio-and-team-foundation-service.aspx
GIT is your best option.
Integrates with Visual Studio 2012 using the Visual Studio Tools for Git
There are some great Graphical Clients like Github for Windows and Source Tree
Microsoft Team Foundation Server now integrates with Git for automatic deployments with just a Git Push. Scott Hanselman has some great blog posts on how to achieve this here, here and here
Anyways I would strongly recommend taking the free tutorial on Git by Code School http://try.github.io/ (don't be afraid of the command line :P)
VS Express won't support plug-ins, so integration with VS would not be possible AFAIK. Try Tortoise/SVN which integrates with Windows Explorer instead.
For VS 2012 you could use the express edition of Microsoft TFS, which includes version control and a couple other nice perks, more aimed at team dev though.
Doesn't Visual Studio generate all kinds of things when you build asp.net websites? I haven't used it in a while but back in webforms with a the dal and a bll, VS generated xml files and other things (don't remember what). And, while I technically could use notepad to fix it, VS seemed to be the only way to make sure things worked right.
How about today with MVC or something else asp.net? Am I tied to Visual Studio forever if I want to build websites? I liked in PHP that I can open up a file and it be simple to change things and it just works.
I am not knocking Visual Studio. It is a great product, but for those in my group that do not use it, it is a learning curve. Not asking for why asp.net is better than php or vice versa, just about visual studio.
EDIT: Is Visual Studio the BEST way to build asp.net projects?
You can use MonoDevelop, Webmatrix, Visual Studio Express but i suggest SharpDevelop, its open source.
sharpDevelop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free IDE for C#, VB.NET and Boo projects on Microsoft's .NET platform. It is open-source, and you can download both sourcecode and executables from this site. In addition, you can find the latest information and changes on #develop, as well as get in touch with the team in the forum.
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No, you can build with MSBuild from command line, just simple msbuild.exe app.sln
You can also use MonoDevelop, which will run on Windows/Mac/Linux.
You could use Microsoft WebMatrix, which is free and aims to simplify the web development process. Another alternative is MonoDevelop, which is an open source IDE for multiple platforms.
Using Visual Studio, I can profile an ASP.net Application using the Performance Wizard (specifically Instrumentation is what I want).
I need to diagnose why a production server is slow, but I don't want to install Visual Studio on it. Also, It's not enough to use something like ASP.net MVC Mini Profiler because I don't control all the code and thus can't get the granularity that I need.
Can I use the Visual Studio Remote Profiler somehow? Windbg? Anything that's not as intrusive as Visual Studio and can be cleanly uninstalled after.
Jetbrains dotTrace can do remote profiling of asp.net applications, it has a free trial, it is commercial though.
ASP.NET with C# Free or not?
Visual web developer Free or not?
Yes, this is free. Get it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/visual-web-developer-express
And the relevant licensing information:
http://www.microsoft.com/express/Support/Support-faq.aspx
Can I use Express Editions for commercial use?
Yes, there are no licensing restrictions for applications built using Visual Studio Express Editions.
Note that this is for Visual Studio 2008. I couldn't find the 2010 version of this right away, but I doubt it's changed. Also be careful not to use the "Terms of Use" link at the bottom of the download page. That has language that contradicts this, but it's just legalese that applies to the web site itself. Visual Web Developer will be covered by it's own license.
Also note that you will have to give Microsoft your e-mail address to get a Windows Live ID to access the site where you register for a license key, and you'll also want a Microsoft Windows server for your hosting.
Visual Studio 2010 Express is Free.
http://www.microsoft.com/express/Web/
You can choose to develop in Visual Basic or C#.
I'm coming from the open source world, and interested in giving ASP.NET a spin. But I'm having a little trouble separating the tools from the platform itself in regards to the licensing. I've downloaded Visual Web Developer 2008 Express, but not sure how different this is from one of the full-featured Visual Studio licenses -- and whether or not my Express license will prevent me from using all the features of ASP.NET.
Is a Visual Studio license just an IDE, or does it include pieces of .NET not available to the Express license? What about the other tools like IIS and SQL Server?
Thanks.
All of .net is available in the .net SDK, so in theory you will not need Visual Studio at all.
Now, there are some things that Express will not do. For example, the Database Designer is not very comprehensive and adding different remote databases is not or only very hardly possible. Still, in code you can connect to everything.
There is also no Remote Debugger, no support for creating Setup Files (well, that does not apply to ASP.net anyway), no real Publish Web Site Feature (although that can be added manually as it's just a Frontend for a SDK tool), no integrated Unit testing (and Microsoft loves to threaten people who add it), etc.
For a full comparison, see here:
Visual Studio 2008 Editions
But as said: Functionality of .net is all in the SDK, Visual Studio is just making it a bit easier to work with.
Visual Studio is just an IDE, you can do all your .NET development with the SDK and notepad if you choose. In fact there is something to be said for learning it that way so you understand better how the pieces fit together!
Microsoft have a version comparison matrix available so you can see exactly what is included each version.
IIS is a Windows component and considered part of the OS, there is nothing else to buy.
SQL Server comes in many flavours, SQL EXpress is free to use and whilst limited compared to the versions you pay for, it is more than enough to get started with ASP.Net
Visual Studio is the IDE and does not include the platform.
IIS and SQL Server are separate products. IIS is available as part of the windows install and the version is different depending on what version of Windows you are using.
SQL Server also has an express product which is not as full featured as the Full versions of SQL Server, yet it is still rather valuable and useful especially for learning purposes.
You can learn a lot from the free tutorials found on asp.net.
Visual Studio is just the IDE. You could theoretically create every file in Notepad and compile manually with just the .net framework.
IIS is an operating system feature, and SQL Server has different flavors with different capabilites.
SharpDevelop is a Open Source IDE for C# and VB.net