Microsoft Visual Studio - Which Version?

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Haven’t been impressed, nor pleased with Monodevelop. Clunky. Since we’re on the Microsoft BizSpark program we have access to Visual Studio for free. Wondering if any has any ideas/opinions about whether there would be significant benefits to using the “Professional” or “Enterprise” versions of VS2015 with Unity?

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You can compare the versions here- Compare Visual Studio Product Offerings | Visual Studio

As far as Unity is concerned, I don’t really see any benefit of using the pro versions of Visual Studio compared to Community, aside from commercial licensing restrictions in Community.

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Thanks @jRocket . Looks like the Pro and Enterprise versions do have extra tools for working with teams, but quite complicated. I’ll have to look into the licensing restrictions for when we start to build the team, but for now as an individual I’m going to stick with the community version since getting help should be easier. Cheers.

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One simple answer… CodeLens. Enterprise has it and Community / Pro doesn’t (unless that changed with 2015). Especially if you’re coupling with TFS and/or doing Unit Testing, CodeLens is fantastic.

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Following in the website of VisualStudio, in VS2015 CodeLens is available in the Pro Version to forward, but not in Community

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Thanks for the info about CodeLens. Have watched a video about it. Looks cool. Cheers.