> In non-enterprise organizations, up to five users can use Visual Studio Community.

I'm no lawyer but if you're an individual developer or small shop developer it sounds to me that you **can** use the Community edition unless I'm reading that wrong. I don't think it matters who you sell your services for if you are not part of that organization you're doing work for.

The license sounds pretty lenient to me and I think that is the intent - to get VS2015 into developer's hands.


+++ Rick ---

>Thanks Craig,
>
>>I there a reason you're going with DevExpress? I've had bad experiences with their products.
>>
>
>I had to buy it for taking over supporting/developing an app for another client. So far I've been happy with it.
>
>>That said, only go with Mere Mortals if it supports MVC directly. Otherwise, it seems too framework heavy for what today's web sites are.
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>>MVC is the way to go. It seems that .NET Core 1.0 is not ready for primetime, so stick with MVC 5.
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>>Entity Framework is what Microsoft is pushing. it makes it easy to access data, but speed is a bit slower than going with ADO.NET. If you're learning MVC, stick with EF because that's how all the samples are done. You can swap out the data layer later
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>>Yes, go with the new version, but stay away from .NET Core. Depending on your company size, you may be able to get away with the Community Edition. (Check licensing requirements)
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>
>I see they say the 2015 community edition is for: "Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps."
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>or for Organizations: "An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.
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>For all other usage scenarios:
>In non-enterprise organizations, up to five users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or >$1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above."
>
>I am an individual developer but sell my services/software as a limited liability company (no other employees) so I guess that puts me in the organization category which means I can't use it. Would that be your take on it too?
>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I am going to start developing a simple ASP.NET application using the existing tools that I have. These are:
>>>
>>>Mere Mortals.net
>>>DevExpress ASP.NET
>>>Visual Studio 2010 Professional
>>>
>>>I don't want to purchase anything else as this project won't really cover any new expenses.
>>>
>>>The system is a front end for a 4 or 5 table database with no real data processing, just CRUD operations and a couple reports, exports and creation of Word Documents (Is openXML still the way to go for that?)
>>>
>>>So, some advice is welcome.
>>>
>>>Should I bother with Mere Mortals or not? Anything else out here that is freely available which replaces its functionality? I haven't done anything using it in years so I'll have to re-learn it anyhow. Will the DevExpress stuff work easily with MM.NET?
>>>
>>>Should I go with MVC, MVVM? Something else?
>>>
>>>Is Entity Framework still the best thing to use?
>>>
>>>Should I go with the free newer version of Visual Studio? I think I used VS Web Express 2013 a couple years back.
>>>
>>>So many questions :)