At the Connect () conference, the Microsoft officially announced it Visual Studio 2013 Community, τη δωρεάν έκδοση του δημοφιλούς toolkit για προγραμματιστές. Αυτή η έκδοση επιτρέπει την πλήρη δυνατότητα extensions (extensibility). 
Η εταιρεία κυκλοφόρησε επίσης το Visual Studio 2015 Preview and .NET 2015 Preview to showcase new Visual Studio Online features and support for programming on iOS and Android directly from Visual Studio. He also announced that .Net is becoming open source and officially cross-platform to work on Windows, Linux and Mac.
You can download it Visual Studio 2013 Community for free
What's in Visual Studio Community 2013
- Extended editing, code analysis, and debugging support, compilers for managed languages, C++ and more
- Programming on every platform: Android, iOS, and Windows Phone with free Visual Studio tools for Apache Cordova extension for Web applications
- Support for open-source workflows (Git)
- Azure SDK integration and modern app analytics as well as telemetry with Application Insights
- Access all Visual Studio 2013 extensions in Visual Studio Gallery
Developers can build with these tools, features and features in device, desktop and cloud applications within the same programming environment!
If you are engaged you can watch them on-demand sessions from Connect (); or Visual Studio Community 2013 video to see what you can do with this version.
