Advice Needed: Which version of Visual Studio Best for development work

Hi,

I currently have Visual Studios 2010, which I purchased several years ago. I want to upgrade in order to customize my websites, as well as develop new themes/plug-ins. Which version would you recommend I purchase to be able to work on all versions of nopCommerce from version 3.70 onward, as well as any future versions. Also, which .NET Framework versions and ASP.Net MVC versions are required to work on nopCommerce versions 3.70-3.90.

This is a personal investment for me, and I'd like to make the correct choice. So am I looking at VS 2012, 2013, 2015 or the new 2017?

Thanks

Works well with Community Edition 2015, it's free you don't have to buy it.

Asp.net 4.5.1 and MVC 4

Thank Rakyuz,

Yeah I know about the community versions. However, I run a small software development business and I need the featyures (mainly testing features) of the pro version. I have a budget to purchase the pro version. I was thinking of getting 2015, but they just released version 2017.

Has anyone worked on nopCommerce with VS 2017? Any issues? Or should I rather go with the stable version of VS 2015. Knowing Microsoft there are bound to be issues with VS 2017 for a while.

But thanks again for the info.

I have trouble openning nopC with 2017, have to downgrade to 2015. So advice is stay with 2015 until official notice.

With the lastest version 4 you need at least Visual Studio 2017 Community https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/

I would recommend everyone who does serious C# .NET development to buy the Annual Cloud Subscription of Visual Studio Professional rather than buying a standalone licence. It costs $539/yr, but with it comes a lot of free stuff, like Windows OS + Server any version, SQL Server any version, etc. And also any upgrade (Visual Studio 2019 is on the horizon) is included. (if I got it right, you may even go on using the software if the subscrition has ended)

With the subscription comes a $50/month Azure credit, so if you're using any Azure service, alone this $600/yr credit means you get back all your investment (ie. your Visual Studio and all the stuff is free)

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing/