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I have been trying to find out whether the free Community Edition of Visual Studio 2015 will accept the Windows Installer XML (WiX) plugin. In the end I decided that the only way to find out, is to try. So I downloaded and ran the VS 2015 Community Ed installer.
I did not bother to uninstall VS2012 Pro that I have on my machine. Uninstallation of previous VS versions, is apparently not required. (Except possibly for some of the 2013 versions?)
The installation was painless and took about 15 minutes. I now have both 2012 and 2015 on my desktop. The new version even imported my personalized settings from the 2012 version. I then ran the WiX installer. (You need at least version 10 for VS 2015.) To my delight the WiX installer reported that it is updating both 2012 Pro and 2015 Community Edition.
In case you wondered, as I did, whether WiX can be installed on the Community Edition: The answer is: Yes. However, make sure you install WiX version 10 or later. Earlier versions are not compatible with VS 2015.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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AFAIK the difference between Pro and Community is only in licensing ... therefore all plugins should work as expected.
modified 19-Nov-18 21:01pm.
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Yes, you are probably right. But there were significant differences between the free Express and Pro versions of earlier VS models. The Express versions could not be integrated with WiX as I remember.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Cornelius Henning wrote: he Express versions could not be integrated with WiX as I remember.
The Express version could not have *any* plugins installed, not just WiX. No ReSharper, no third-party test runners, no Unity plugin, nothing.
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WiX must die, together with that ugly MSI.
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I think they got the recipe from Nagy!
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Nagy probably owns the company! 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Nagy probably owns the company!
Maybe not outright but he's probably got a share in it. 
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Considering the amount of their product I consume, I should be given a substantial share in Starbucks. But do you think they will give me a single share of stock? Naaah! Ungrateful sunshines!
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Not even a cup, those greedy bastards!
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Going to Starbucks for coffee is akin to going to prison for sex
veni bibi saltavi
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I don't know why Starbucks does this, but many people have remarked that the quality of their coffee here in the USA is much better than abroad. Believe me when I tell you that in America Starbucks is one of the better brands!![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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But how long will that share last?
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15 minutes (the average time for a breakfast)!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Gin - Breakfast of Champions!
veni bibi saltavi
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Before the VStudio Community edition released you had to install 3 different VStudio products to get all of the project types. It was crazy.
Finally, I installed VStudio 2013* Community which seemed to do everything but I never uninstalled all those other products. Now, I'm going through and uninstalling
Visual Studio Express 2013 For Web
Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop
Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows (EDIT: uninstall has been running for 20 minutes still not done)
Can't believe how slow the uninstall is.
I'm glad Microsoft finally brought these all back together again.
*I know, Community 2015 is available, but that's another crazy thing. Looks like you can't upgrade 2013, but you have to uinstall and install 2015 seperately.
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Visual Studio has become so bloated it's unreal.
Jeremy Falcon
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Unreal is actually still a separate installation
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Sascha Lefèvre wrote: Unreal is actually still a separate installation
And you want to talk about bloated...
The last upgrade from 4.10.1 to 4.10.2 was a 2.2 gig download. 
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If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Visual Studio has become so bloated it's unreal.
I know and it's unfortunate that installing a new version just leaves the old versions out there.
Well, I guess they could say it is for compatibility reasons.
Anyways, the Desktop version is still uninstalling and the progress bar hasn't moved even though it's been like 35 minutes or something.
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Quote: I know and it's unfortunate that installing a new version just leaves the old versions out there.
That would require everyone to upgrade at the same time so that Solutions can be loaded.
Some people are very slow adopters.
From an aesthetic point of view, the last version I liked was 2010. All the new versions are flat and should have come standard with an intravenous caffeine dispenser.
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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Really? VS2015 Enterprise Update 1 takes up 218MB on my machine. Around 1GB with all the web packages. I agree it got a ton of bloat in the past. But this new update is super slick!
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When all is said and done, even MS says it takes up about 10GB[^]. That's like 3-4 times more than Windows itself, and for what? It's not media intensive, like a video game would be... it's a fancy text editor that can be slow (try working with XAML) with a compiler or three behind it.
It's bloated.
Jeremy Falcon
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