What version of "Microsoft Visual Studio 2010" do I need?

I am a translator and I want to try to develop a plug-in for SDL Studio 2017.

The SDL documentation says I need "Microsoft Visual Studio 2010", but is any version good enough? Microsoft has Express, Premium, Professional and Ultimate versions ($$$).

Thanks in advance for any insights (or link to an FAQ).

Gary Hess

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  • Hi Gary,

    If you want to develop an app for Studio 2017 download Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Community. It's free but will has enough functionality for what you need. You will need to use the latest version of .NET Platform in your app and VS 2010 does not support it.

    If you are new to programming learn C# as that is the language that has the most code examples for Studio. Register with SDL as a developer and gain access to all of their resources and check out Github for Studio, just Google github sdl studio.

    Best of luck,

    Ben
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  • Hi Gary,

    If you want to develop an app for Studio 2017 download Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Community. It's free but will has enough functionality for what you need. You will need to use the latest version of .NET Platform in your app and VS 2010 does not support it.

    If you are new to programming learn C# as that is the language that has the most code examples for Studio. Register with SDL as a developer and gain access to all of their resources and check out Github for Studio, just Google github sdl studio.

    Best of luck,

    Ben
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  • Hi Ben, Thanks for the insights. I am installing Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Community right now.

    I would prefer to work in C++ because I have some experience there. Is that also OK for Studio 2017 development?

    I will check out the Github stuff.

    Gary
  • Hi Gary,

    I'm glad to hear that you have VS 2017 Community, it should meet all of your requirements.

    Of course it is possible to work with C++ when developing apps for Studio, but there are very few code examples for C++. C# has the most followed by Visual Basic .NET. If you are familiar with C++ it should be relatively easy to swap over to C#, see this link www.upwork.com/.../

    The choice of with which language you work is yours with, but I would recommend C#. I am a VB man myself but found no problems picking up C#.

    Best of luck.

    Ben