What are the differences between the available versions of Visual Studio 2015?

Question

Last year it was announced 3 versions of Visual Studio 2015: Community, Professional and Enterprise

Based on the tools available in each version:

• what I miss between using one and the other in part productivity and available tools?
• (optional) is recommended for what types of projects, if possible examples?! (ex: small projects as a website application, loss of mobile phone emulation tools,...)

Answer 1

Professional

The Visual Studio Community in itself has nothing unless the Professional. There may be some benefits beyond the IDE that Microsoft only gives in the paid version. Among them stand out the Team Services in its fullness and the Team Foundation Server (this has been changing the service is up to another now). Also availability of various software (SQL Server, Exchange, etc.) for use in development environment, as well as credits in various services. In the link above can be seen the usage restrictions of this version.

Enterprise

The Enterprise edition has several extra features primarily linked to ALM, tests and debugging (some are no longer exclusive of this edition). There is a official comparative table. Highlight:

• Intellitrace (debug historical)
• .NET Memory Dump Analysis
• Code Map Debugger Integration
• Web Load & Performance Testing
• Intellitest
• Microsoft Fakes (Unit Test Isolation)
• Code Coverage
• Coded UI Testing
• Manual Testing
• Exploratory Testing
• Test Case Management
• Fast-forward for Manual Testing
• Codelens
• Codeclone
• Architectural Layer Diagrams
• Architecture Validation
• UML Diagrams
• Virtual Environment setup & teardown
• Provision Environment from template
• Checkpoint Environment
• Web-based Test Case Management
• Release Management
• Test Manager
• Extra features for Xamarin (Android and iOS), including Remote Simulator
• Unit tests in "real time"
• Extra third-party SQL tools

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Answer 2

Goes according to what you want to use even roughly.

The Community is mainly with the academic focus (basic tools for development), however, not as flexible as the Professional around tools. The Enterprise already exists unit testing as a tool for example (but you can use other programs that make Testunit). They are in themselves tools that differentiate one from the other. I use Visual Studio Professional at work but at home I have Community and particularly Professional can give you much more benefit compared to Community.

More questions follows the Link from the MS website talking about the products asked.