Is it possible to develop and compile Visio Addins with the free Visual Studio Code/Community versions?
Visual Studio Professional 2017 is pretty expensive compared to all the free high quality tools for JavaScript development out there, or is it possible to get it at a better price than over $1000?
Hi, yes, very easy with the community edition. I wrote:
http://www.paulherber.co.uk/visio-utilities/ (http://www.paulherber.co.uk/visio-utilities/)
with this. I used to use Free Pascal with Lazarus to create Visio addons but the framework available was only for 32-bit Visio and had no API code beyond Visio 2000. However, the Lazarus option was just so much easier and faster. Ho hum
Community Edition is identical to the Professional Edition (with only one pretty odd exception: Code Lens), as far as I know,
and "logical" licensing limitations - you can not use Community if your company has more than 5 developers.
VS Code, with Visio, is no-go for now.
Quote from: Nikolay on October 30, 2018, 07:48:00 PM
VS Code, with Visio, is no-go for now.
What do you mean "is no-go" ?
I mean, VS Code it is cross-platform, and basically supports (only) cross-platform .NET Core, as far as I know.. No Automation (no COM), no Registry, no VSTO.
I am not sure if it is possible to create Visio extension using .NET Core at all (I think not)?
We don't have Visio for Linux yet, right? :)
Visual Studio 2017 Community (not VS Code) is free and allows to write VSTO addins.
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/?rr=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.de%2F
Paul, Nicolay & Yacine thank you so much, really grateful to Microsoft they provide so much with Visual Studio community edition for free for small development teams! vs pro is pretty expensive otherwise.