Visual Studio offerings
There are different versions of Visual Studio 2015 available to satisfy the various needs of developers/organizations. Primarily, there are four versions of Visual Studio 2015:
Visual Studio Community
Visual Studio Professional
Visual Studio Enterprise
Visual Studio Test Professional
System requirements
Visual Studio can be installed on computers running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 operating system and above. You can get to know the complete list of requirements from the following URL:
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/visual-studio-2015-system-requirements-vs.aspx
Visual Studio Community 2015
This is a fully featured IDE available for building desktops, web applications, and cloud services. It is available free of cost for individual users.
You can download Visual Studio Community from the following URL:
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-community-vs.aspx
Throughout this book, we will be using the Visual Studio Community version...