Python application launcher (for Python code)
breamoreboy at gmail.com
breamoreboy at gmail.com
Sat Feb 25 07:49:13 EST 2017
On Friday, February 24, 2017 at 1:54:39 AM UTC, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> Michael Torrie wrote, on February 23, 2017 7:43 AM
> >
> > On 2017-02-22 09:49 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> > > Didn't even look. Visual Studio has always been pricey, and it never
>
> > > occurred to me that they might have a free or cheap version now.
> >
> > You can get the full edition of Visual Studio, called Visual Studio
> > Community Edition for free. They still offer Visual Studio Express,
> but
> > I think they recommend the full community edition to most people now.
> > The biggest downside to the VS Community Edition is that it has to
> phone
> > home and log in to MS's developer web site from time to time to stay
> > active. Sigh. MS almost gets it, but not quite.
>
> Another free version of Visual Studio, wonders never cease!
>
> As for it phoning home, I won't use it for long, and then I might not
> ever use it again. Wonder what value they think this has, other than
> giving them a nosecount of how many active copies there are at any given
> time.
As an alternative to Visual Studio Community Edition, which takes forever and a day to download and install, you might like to give Visual Studio Code a try https://code.visualstudio.com/
Kindest regards.
Mark Lawrence.
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