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Microsoft today launched the Community 2013 edition of Visual Studio, which essentially replaces the very limited Visual Studio Express version the company has been offering for a few years now. There ...

Included in the release of the community technical preview are all the Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 Web tooling improvement and ASP.NET vNext alpha 3 runtime packages. It has improved tooling support ...

Previously, these packages were limited to Metro, Azure, Windows Phone, and the Web, but developer pressure has led to Microsoft offering a desktop version After hearing objections from developers, ...