Move on to Visual Studio 2015 RTM / Community

You have been using Visual Studio 2013 or non-rtm versions of Visual Studio 2015. Now Visual Studio 2015 RTM is available and the Visual Studio 2015 Community edition is free. Visual Studio Community is free for individual developers, open source projects, academic research, education, and small professional teams.

All Visual Studio 2015 items shown below can be downloaded from this link.

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Download button for the Visual Studio 2015 Community is here.

  

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It has everything you need for productive programming:

• Flexibility- PC, tablet, smartphone OK

• Designers, editors, debuggers, profilers all in one place

• Extensive extensions makes you reach out

• Multiple language support, C#, VB, F#, C++, Python, HTML, JavaScript and more

• Support Windows Desktop Programs, Universal Windows Platform, iOS, and Android

• Develop for web with ASP.NET, Node.js, Python etc with several frameworks(AngularJS, jQuery, Django, etc)

Master C# and become a Universal Coder

Is this the coming of age of C#?

Of course with your C# mastery and XAMARIN Studio you can become a Universal coder. The apps are written entirely in C# but your target platform could be Windows, Mac, Android and iOS. Isn't that cool? You can have your favorite .NET libraries and still use stuff for platform specific libraries, and have a good mash. If you have not tried XAMARIN try it now and join the 0.5B developers World wide. Down load a free version here which is really bare bones.

http://xamarin.com/

The free version gives you:

Xamarin Studio and deploying to Device(s) or deploying to App Store(s) capabilities. Perhaps the app size is limited and if you want unlimited appsize, prepare to shell out $299/year in buying a subscription. The top end costs $1899/year.

Here is the product line-up, you choose.